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" 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 of space and number of which he cannot divest himself without ceasing to think. But he could never... "
An Introduction to the Study of Chemical Philosophy: Being a Preparatory ... - Page 1
by John Frederic Daniell - 1839 - 565 pages
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A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

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...
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Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion Considered with ...

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,...
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Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

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,...
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The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as ...

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,...
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On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God: As Manifested in the Adaptation of ...

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,...
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Familiar Illustrations of Natural Philosophy: Selected Principally from ...

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...
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Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

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,...
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A Manual of Chemistry

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...
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A few notes on cruelty to animals; on the inadequacy of penal law, on ...

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...
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On the Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Water Colours, for ...

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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