 ... 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
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 346 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;... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 346 pages
...diameter the breadth of the solar system; or 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 290 measured; and it is assumed that the diameter of the gin-horse, and that of the planet, will yield... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 200 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... | |
 | WILLARD C. GORE - 1915 - 390 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, ao its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured: and it is... | |
 | Clarence Darrow - 1899 - 84 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...the circle of a ginhorse, its diameter a score of feei or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured; and it is assumed that the diameter... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio acquaintance. That painful class, stationed, in all...Gentility, there to stand siege and do battle agai city's hippodrome ; nay the circle of a ginhorse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 1106 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...assumed that the diameter of the gin-horse, and that ' f the planet, will yield the same ratio when compared with them ! Here lies the root of many a blind,... | |
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