 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...merely as affording us no aid towards alleviating the evil, but as actually inflaming the disease. The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...facts on which their premises are to be established. Their pursuits, accordingly, from the mingled experience of failure and success, have, to them, proved... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 828 pages
...not merely as affording us no aid toward alleviating the evil, but as actually inflaming the disease. The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...facts on which their premises are to be established. Their pursuits, accordingly, from the mingled experience of failure and success, have, to them, proved... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1861 - 816 pages
...not merely as affording us no aid toward alleviating the evil, but as actually inflaming the disease. The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...facts on which their premises are to be established. Their pursuits, accordingly, from the mingled experience of failure and success, have, to them, proved... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...utility, stands not only uncontroverted, but untouched — not only untouched, but admitted. * * * * The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...facts on which their premises are to be established. Their pursuits, accordingly, from the mingled experience of failure and success, have, to them, proved... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1871 - 254 pages
...perpendicularly, in frowning majesty, from twelve to fifteen hundred feet in height." — Ed. Robinson. " The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...facts on which their premises are to be established. Their pursuits, accordingly, from the mingled experience of failure and success, have, to them, proved... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...not merely ae affording ns no aid toward alleviating the evil, but as actually inflaming the disease. -x p ] ! ȊQ H>ex10 z T $m{ ,ì 1 { a T9` # < ..." ɼ 07 ec as^ _ms `s^> bieBe 9 (#ȁe eK ?۩? Վ HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES.* THE Greek and Latin tongues, with the literature to which... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...not merely as affording us no aid toward alleviating the evil, but as actually inflaming the disease. The mathematician, as already noticed, is exclusively...collection and balancing of probabilities, in order M obtain and purify the facts on which their premises are to be established. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1868 - 676 pages
...place, charges the mathematics with inducing credulity and skepticism, because "the mathematician, exclusively engrossed with the deduction of inevitable conclusions, from data passively received," becomes insensible to moral evidence. Thus, by again implicitly denying to the study any exercise of... | |
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... of all reasoning, it must of course enable us to correct this the most dangerous and prevalent of our intellectual failings. But, among all our rational pursuits, mathematics stand distinguished, not merely as affording us no aid toward alleviating... 