 | 1815 - 606 pages
...authority of Jones threw a temporary shade over the fame of M. du Perron ; but jf is now generally allowed by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject, that he has really collected ancient writings which have been preserved by the priests of fire, under... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1826 - 436 pages
...indulge me with his permission to make a preliminary remark. I believe it will be readily admitted, by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject, that, in general, students are the best able to decide on the character and talents of each other.... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1873 - 634 pages
...labours be estimated ; and, tried by this standard, there is no doubt as to the verdict pronounced by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject. " There was a strong poetic element in his mind from boyhood. It gushes out with irrepressible fervour... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1874 - 556 pages
...labours be estimated ; and, tried by this standard, there is no doubt as to the verdict pronounced by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject. "There was a strong poetic element in his mind from boyhood. It gushes out with irrepressible fervour... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1880 - 196 pages
...reflect sunlight and to give rise to the tail. If this theory be accepted — and it has been adopted by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject — the connexion between comets and aerolites becomes at once apparent. CHAPTER IX. THE STARS : NEBULAR... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1885 - 318 pages
...for mathematical taste and power, yet the majority have been of other kinds ; namely, either pel-sons of ability whose attention was fully occupied with...Moreover it is obvious that the adoption of Euclid as a text book is prescribed by those who are equally in earnest and know what they recommend. In short... | |
 | Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 2004 - 336 pages
...hesitation in saying that the foundation obtained from Euclid was sounder than that from Legendre. Although I have admitted that the study of Euclid...Moreover it is obvious that the adoption of Euclid as a text book is prescribed by those who are equally in earnest and know what they recommend. In short... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1873 - 786 pages
...labours be estimated ; and, tried by this standard, there is no doubt as to the verdict pronounced by those who are competent to form an opinion on the subject." In the business of Bible Revision, still going on so well at Westminster, he took a very active part,... | |
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... of ability whose attention was fully occupied with studies different from mathematics, or persons of scanty attainments and feeble power who could do little more than pass the ordinary examination. I can distinctly affirm that the cases of hopeless... 