 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - Authors, English - 1881 - 406 pages
...translating ' Legendre's Geometry' for Brewster* ... I still remember a happy forenoon ... in which I did a Fifth Book (or complete 'doctrine of proportion')...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have (except correcting the press next week) never seen... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 394 pages
...Brewster; my outlook somewhat cheerfuller. I still remember a happy forenoon (Sunday, I fear) in which I did a Fifth Book (or complete "doctrine of proportion")...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have (except correcting the press next week) never seen... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - Authors, Scottish - 1881 - 414 pages
...Legendre's Geometry' for Brewster* ... I still remember a happy forenoon ... in which I did a Fifilt Book (or complete ' doctrine of proportion ') for...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have (except correcting the press next week) never seen... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 368 pages
...forenoon (Sunday, I fear) in which I did a Fifth Book (or complete ' doctrine of proportion ') foi that work, complete really and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have (except correcting the press next week) never seen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, Scottish - 1882 - 502 pages
...was himself pleased with it. I still remember (he says) a happy forenoon (Sunday, I fear) in which I did a Fifth book (or complete Doctrine of Proportion)...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have, except correcting the press next week, never seen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 598 pages
...was himself pleased with it. " I still remember [he says] a happy forenoon (Sunday, I fear) in which I did a Fifth book (or complete Doctrine of Proportion)...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have, except correcting the press next week, never seen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 812 pages
...was himself pleased with it. I still remember (he says) a happy forenoon (Sunday, I fear) in which I did a Fifth book (or complete Doctrine of Proportion)...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have, except correcting the press next week, never seen... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1894 - 300 pages
...little up, translating Legendre's Geometry for Brewster. I still remember a happy forenoon in which I did a Fifth Book (or complete doctrine of proportion)...and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have (except correcting the press next week) never seen... | |
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Doctrine of Proportion) for that work. Complete really and lucid, and yet one of the briefest ever known. It was begun and done that forenoon, and I have, except correcting the press next week, never seen it since ; but still feel as if it was right enough... 