| Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 534 pages
...which follows the table itfelf, which has been before defcribed, pa. 31. Before I difmifs Kepler's work, however, it may not be improper in this place...laid down by him in the appendix to the 27th prop, juft now referred to; both becauie it is an error in principal, tending to vitiate the practice, and... | |
| Charles Hutton - Logarithms - 1785 - 560 pages
...table itfelf, which has been before defcribed, pa. 3^ Before I difmifs Kepler's work, however, itmay not be improper in this place to take notice of an...laid down by him in the appendix to the 27th prop, juft now referred to; both becaufe it is an error in principal, tending to vitiate the practice, and... | |
| Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff) - 1785 - 534 pages
...tcffimony, therefore, ihall be coafidered prefently in its proper place. But, before I proceed to this, it may not be improper in this place to take notice of fome objections, which have of late been revived and urged, againft this whole notion both of the prophecies... | |
| Robert Jackson - 1791 - 576 pages
...but except that, which I have juft mentioned, we do not difcover much that is fundamentally new. (6) It may not be improper in this place to take notice of the pradice of cold bathing in fevers, which was introduced at Rome in the infancy of the methodic... | |
| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 542 pages
...teitimony, therefore, ihall be confidered prefently in its proper place. But, befcre I proceed to this, it may not be improper in this place to take notice of fome objections, which have of late been revived and urged, againft this whole notion both of the prophecies... | |
| Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone - 1806 - 380 pages
...favourite witness Mr Seward, con> trary to the common iaws of nature, freshens and improves with time ! It may not be improper, in this place, to take notice of an objection stated by the prosecutor to some of my interrogatories, that their tendency was to criminate... | |
| Sir John Barrow - China - 1807 - 550 pages
...same exceptionable manner, a particular account of which shall be given in the chapter of revenue. It may not be improper in this place to take notice of an innovation introduced in favour of Mr. Ponsonby, who was now speaker of the house of commons, and was... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 574 pages
...which follows the table itself, which has been before described, pa. 32. Before dismissing Kepler's work, however, it may not be improper in this place...practice, and because it serves to show that Kepler was unacquainted with the true nature of the orders of differences of the logarithms, notwithstanding what... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 466 pages
...sacrifices, by de" stroying" the city itself, and making the place inac" cessible to all of them *." It may not be improper, in this place, to take notice of an objection, though indeed it be already obviated. It is, " that the sacrificing at Jerusalem being a... | |
| William Leechman, James Wodrow - 1816 - 926 pages
...profperity. But while we thus reprefent humility as the fource and fupport of fo many excellent virtues, it may not be improper in this place to take notice of an objection that has been made to it; viz. that the exercife of humility leads to meannefs and bafenefs... | |
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