| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 624 pages
...thirty-eight, he first appeared as an author in the Philosophical Transactions. Hia paper is entitled ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' This is, we believe, the first attack on the improper application of mathematical reasoning and language... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Knowledge, Theory of - 1803 - 238 pages
...the time when it was written. It is entitled, An Eflay on Quantity, occafioned by reading a Treatife, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue And Merit ; and fhews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquifhed the favourite... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Scotland - 1805 - 452 pages
...light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is intituled, " An Essay on quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researchesof... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his speculations about this period. It is entitled, An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ; and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...light'with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it \vas written. It is entitled «' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished 3 R 2 REÍ (... | |
| Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 174S. It was entitled "An, Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
| Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researches... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - Classical literature - 1822 - 614 pages
...fpeculations about this period. It is entitled, An EJay on Quantity, occafioned by reading a Treatife, in which, Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit j and mews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely rethe favourite refearches... | |
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