| John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 pages
...up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, hy proceeding from those simple notions of space and...in water, or what impression would be produced on his eye by mixing the colors yellow and blue. (67.) We have thus pointed out to us, as the great, and... | |
| William Prout - 1834 - 618 pages
...J. Herschel, " shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reasoning what would become of a lump of sugar, if immersed in water,... | |
| Richard Whately - 1834 - 482 pages
...Herschel, ' shut up alone and allowed all unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reasoning what would become of a lump of sugar, if immersed in water,... | |
| 1836 - 300 pages
...J. Herschel, "shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reason what would become of a lump of sugar, if immersed in water,... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 572 pages
...J. Herschel, " shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reason what would become of a lump of sugar, if immersed in water,... | |
| James Renwick - 1840 - 412 pages
...observed,t " shut up alone, and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...would be produced on the eye by mixing the colours of yellow and blue." ยง 2. Experience, then, must be his guide ; not the mere passive experience of... | |
| Richard Whately - 1840 - 508 pages
...Herschel, ' shut up alone and allowed all unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reasoning what would become of a lump of sugar, if immersed in water,... | |
| Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pages
...John Herschel, ' shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions...which he cannot divest himself without ceasing to B think. But he could never tell, by any effort of reasoning, what would become of a lump of sugar... | |
| Ralph Fletcher - 1846 - 120 pages
...a clever man shut up alone, and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics by proceeding from those simple notions...on the eye by mixing the colours yellow and blue." It is equally true that the scientific branches of painting have had to depend on many points of knowledge... | |
| Theodore Henry Fielding - 1846 - 302 pages
...a clever man shut up alone, and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics by proceeding from those simple notions...on the eye by. mixing the colours yellow and blue." It is equally true that the scientific branches of painting have had to depend on many points of knowledge... | |
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