 | William Prout - 1834 - 618 pàgines
...notions of space and number of which he cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he would never tell by any effort of reasoning what would become...impression would be produced on his eye by mixing the colours yellow and blue,"* results which can be learnt only from experience. Thus then the extremes... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1834 - 482 pàgines
...alone and allowed all unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions of space and...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,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 572 pàgines
...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...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 300 pàgines
...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...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,... | |
 | James Renwick - 1840 - 412 pàgines
...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...in water ; or what impression would be produced on the eye by mixing the colours of yellow and blue." § 2. Experience, then, must be his guide ; not... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1840 - 508 pàgines
...alone and allowed all unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions of space and...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,... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Fletcher - 1846 - 120 pàgines
...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...in water ; or what impression would be produced on the eye by mixing the colours yellow and blue." It is equally true that the scientific branches of... | |
 | Theodore Henry Fielding - 1846 - 302 pàgines
...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...in water ; or what impression would be produced on the eye by. mixing the colours yellow and blue." It is equally true that the scientific branches of... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller - 1847 - 612 pàgines
...up alone, and allowed uulimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics by proceeding from those simple notions of space and...impression would be produced on his eye by mixing the colours yellow and blue." P. 76.] INTRODUCTION. 3 Seen from this point of view, mathematics is a purely... | |
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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... 
