... 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
| Robert Burns - 1899 - 214 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 - 1900 - 250 pages
...few inches of deflection from the 15 mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...a city hippodrome; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, 20 its diameter a score of feet or paces, But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
...the few inches of reflection 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 the ginhorse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured;... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1900 - 332 pages
...the few inches of reflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...the breadth of the solar system; or it may be a city hippodrome—nay, the circle of a ginhorse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, William Tenney Brewster - 1901 - 150 pages
...inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the. 2220 ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are meas condemnation of Burnses, Swifts, Rousseaus, which one never listens to with approval. Granted,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 174 pages
...deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole 5 diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit...of deflection only are measured : and it is assumed 10 that the diameter of the ginhorse, and that of the planet, will yield the same ratio when compared... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 148 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...or it may be a city hippodrome; nay the circle of a ginhorse,1 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1912 - 154 pages
...few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so 20 easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...gin-horse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the 25 inches of deflection only are measured: and it is assumed that the diameter of the gin-horse, and... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 250 pages
...few inches of deflection from the 15 mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real...a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, 20 its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
| Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 344 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...it may be a city hippodrome; nay, the circle of a gin -horse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured;... | |
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