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" An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit... "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: From Their ... - Page 559
by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

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...
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Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid ...

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...
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Biographia Scotica; or, Scottish biographical dictionary

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...
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Biographical Memoirs, of Adam Smith, LL. D., of William Robertson, D. D. and ...

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...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 8

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 (...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 26

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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 26

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...
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The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 1

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...
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Correspondence of the Late Gilbert Wakefield, B. A.: With the Late Right ...

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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