 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 páginas
...gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise ; I have redeemed my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms,...commentator ; for undoubtedly, in many instances, a comment on a received author has been made the vehicle of conveying systems and doctrines entirely... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 páginas
...Gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise, I have redeemed my pledge, I have explained according to my ability the definitions, postulates, axioms,...sinking under the weight of years, I lay down my art and instruments.' As if all that could be known were attained, and that the occupation of the student were... | |
 | William Chambers - 1856 - 570 páginas
...Gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise, I have redeemed my pledge, I have explained according to my ability the definitions, postulates, axioms,...sinking under the weight of years, I lay down my art and instruments.' As if all that could be known were attained, and that the occupation of the student were... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 páginas
...gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise ; I have redeemed my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms,...Platonists wrote, taking Plato for their text The labors of learned men in the stationary period, which came under this description, belong to another... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 582 páginas
...pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and first sight propositions of the Elements of Euclid. Here, sinking under the weight of years, I lay down iny art and my instruments." We here speak of the peculiar province of the Commentator; for undoubtedly,... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1896 - 336 páginas
...my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and the first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid....weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments." 2 It must be remembered that at this time scholastic learning and polemical divinity held sway. Savile... | |
 | 1913 - 914 páginas
...my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and the first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid....under the weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments."12 It is interesting to speculate on the thoughts which would likely pass through the... | |
 | 1908 - 874 páginas
...redeemed my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms and the first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid....under the weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments."8 Need we marvel if sinking under the weight of logical and philological subtleties, the... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1907 - 902 páginas
...my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and the first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid....weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments.* From the standpoint of modern mathematics, Sir Henry Savile and the Bushman are both woefully backward;... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - 1907 - 346 páginas
...my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and the first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid....under the weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments.1 From the standpoint of modern mathematics, Sir Henry Savile and the Bushman are both... | |
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By the grace of God, gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise ; I have redeemed my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid. Here, sinking under... 
