 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...highest gratification of all, in being able to see distinctly those grounds, so as to be satisfied tbat a belief in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to...certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from thing!) perfectly self-evident, and by the smallest addition at each step, every one being as easily... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth—to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps lead to the conclusion—to observe how certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectly selfevident,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth—to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step succeeds another, and how the whole steps lead to the conclusion—to observe how certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...clo.sely the grounds they rest on. But the.re is the highest gratification of all, in being able to sec distinctly those grounds, so as to be satisfied that...selfevident, and by the smallest addition at each etep, every one being as easily taken after the one before as the. first step of all was, and yet the... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1833 - 436 pages
...those grounds, so as to be satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow к demonstration of a grand mathematical truth — to...lead to the conclusion — to observe how certainly an d unerringly the. reasoning goes on from thi ngs perfectly selfevident, and by the smallest addition... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Cosmology - 1850 - 684 pages
...follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth," says a powerful and enlightened writer,—" to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step...succeeds another, and how the whole steps lead to the conclusion,—to observe how certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...fairy-tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention, and to occupy and gratify the mind, than this most unexpected resemblance...certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectlyself-evident, and by the smallest addition at each step, every one being as easily taken after... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...follow a demonstration of a grand mathematical truth," says a powerful and enlightened writer,—" to perceive how clearly and how inevitably one step...succeeds another, and how , the whole steps lead to the conclusion,—to observe how certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectly self-evident,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Mathematics - 1860 - 342 pages
...satisfied that a belief in the doctrines is well founded. Hence to follow a demonstration of a great mathematical truth — to perceive how clearly and...succeeds another, and how the whole steps lead to tho conclusion — to observe how certainly and unerringly the reasoning goes on from things perfectly... | |
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Without this you never can expect to remember them long, or to understand them accurately ; and that would of itself be reason enough for examining closely the grounds they rest on. But there is the highest gratification of all, in being able to see distinctly... 