... one may be stated as the substance : It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes ; and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit,... The North American Review - Page 72edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
| Hugh Walker - 1893 - 272 pages
...the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit may be a planet, its diameter the breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 180 pages
...few inches of 10 deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...be a city hippodrome; nay the circle of a ginhorse, 15 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 184 pages
...few inches of 10 deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...or it may be a city hippodrome; nay the circle of a giuhorse, 15 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 104 pages
...the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome,2 nay, the circle of a gin horse,3 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 126 pages
...the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter the 5 breadth of the solar system; or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, its'diameter... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 pages
...few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which 25 are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...circle of a gin-horse, its diameter a score of feet or and that of the planet will yield the same ratio when compared with them ! Here lies the root of many... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 pages
...few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which 25 are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...circle of a gin-horse, its diameter a score of feet or 30 paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured : and it is assumed that the diameter of the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1897 - 218 pages
...few inches of 5 deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...be a city hippodrome; nay the circle of a ginhorse, 10 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 130 pages
...few inches of 5 deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...be a city hippodrome; nay the circle of a ginhorse, 10 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 154 pages
...the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter the 10 breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, its... | |
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