Hermathena, Volume 4University of Dublin, 1883 - Humanities |
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Page 257 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Page 462 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 156 - I ask, take modification for what you please, can the same unextended, indivisible substance have different, nay, inconsistent and opposite (as these of white and black must be) modifications at the same time ? Or must we suppose distinct parts in an indivisible substance, one for black, another for white, and another for red ideas, and so of the rest of those infinite sensations, which we have in sorts and degrees; all which we can distinctly perceive, and so are distinct ideas, some whereof are...
Page 198 - Prove that the angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another.
Page 368 - Ceteris servis non .in nostrum morem, discriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur: suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. frumenti modum dominus aut pecoris aut vestis ut colono iniungit, et servus hactenus paret : cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page 259 - quia tanti quantum habeas sis.' Quid facias illi ? lubeas miserum esse, libenter Quatenus id facit. Ut quidam memoratur Athenis Sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces Sic solitus : ' Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in area.
Page 462 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 55 - Atque inter pecudes accubuisse deam. Hoc et Hamadryadum spectavit turba sororum, Silenique senes, et pater ipse chori, Cum quibus Idaeo legisti poma sub antro, Supposita excipiens Naica dona manu. 40 An quisquam in tanto stuprorum examine quaerit : Cur haec tam dives ? quis dedit ? unde dedit...
Page 201 - In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the squares on the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side...
Page 249 - I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.