The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter |
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... you do , how readily I should defer to the opinion of so great a mathe- matician if the question at issue were really , as he seems to think it is , a mathematical one . But I submit , that the dictum of a mathematical athlete 16 Preface .
... you do , how readily I should defer to the opinion of so great a mathe- matician if the question at issue were really , as he seems to think it is , a mathematical one . But I submit , that the dictum of a mathematical athlete 16 Preface .
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... opinion that it is a mathematical ques- tion to determine the place of mathematics among the sciences . I have only ventured to express my belief that had the distinguished lay preacher been better acquainted with the real aim and scope ...
... opinion that it is a mathematical ques- tion to determine the place of mathematics among the sciences . I have only ventured to express my belief that had the distinguished lay preacher been better acquainted with the real aim and scope ...
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... opinions which found in him their advocate . As regards the second of the two points I am perfectly at a loss to ... opinion that what my estimable and eminent adversary calls a reductio ad absurdum might with much greater propriety ...
... opinions which found in him their advocate . As regards the second of the two points I am perfectly at a loss to ... opinion that what my estimable and eminent adversary calls a reductio ad absurdum might with much greater propriety ...
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... opinions on mathematical science - his parallel of grammatical and mathematical training 106 Mathematics as dependent on invention and observation- Examples of mathematical euristic Contact - points of faith and knowledge in mathematics ...
... opinions on mathematical science - his parallel of grammatical and mathematical training 106 Mathematics as dependent on invention and observation- Examples of mathematical euristic Contact - points of faith and knowledge in mathematics ...
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... opinions ) , justify me , I trust , in associating the idea of fate with the words ultra fas , although I believe such ... opinion sanctioned , on quite distinct grounds , by the transcendent authority of my friend Professor Key : The ...
... opinions ) , justify me , I trust , in associating the idea of fate with the words ultra fas , although I believe such ... opinion sanctioned , on quite distinct grounds , by the transcendent authority of my friend Professor Key : The ...
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accent Alcaic stanza algebra anapaests Anastomosis Athenaeum Club Bactra beautiful believe brow C. M. Ingleby Chromatic conception Conington's criticism crotchet diphthong disclaimed Edgar Poe English Europa exposition expression eyes faculty fair feel form of sensibility form of thought forms of intuition fraudes G. H. LEWES geometry GEORGE HENRY LEWES give induction Ingleby Intuition and Thought intuition without thought J. J. SYLVESTER Kant Kant's doctrine language Lewes Maecenas mathe mathematical mathematician matter meaning metre Metric mind notion o'er observation opinion original passage Philosophical phonetic syzygy principle priori Professor Newman Professor Sylvester Pure Reason quadric quartic quaver readers of Nature reading reference regard rendering rhyme semiquavers sense sensuous impression soul sound speak of Space spondee stanza syllable Symptosis Synectic syzygetic syzygy term thee theory thine thou tion transcendental translation trochee Tyrrhenian verse versification vowel word
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Page 68 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 29 - Quodcunque retro est, efficiet neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
Page 67 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 107 - Mathematical training is almost purely deductive. The mathematician starts with a few simple propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them.
Page 49 - Israel's scatter'd race ; For, taking root, it there remains In solitary grace : It cannot quit its place of birth, It will not live in other earth. But we must wander witheringly, In other lands to die; And where our fathers...
Page 108 - is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation.
Page 117 - Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches in a field where Geometry, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, like sunset tints or the colours of the dying dolphin, "the last still loveliest...
Page 120 - I should rejoice to see mathematics taught with that life and animation which the presence and example of her young and buoyant sister could not fail to impart, short roads preferred to long ones, Euclid honorably shelved or buried "deeper than did ever plummet sound...
Page 108 - ... springing direct from the inherent powers and activity of the human mind, and from continually renewed introspection of that inner world of thought of which the phenomena are as varied and require as close attention to discern as those of the outer physical world (to which the inner one in each individual man may, I think, be conceived to stand in somewhat the same general relation of correspondence as a shadow to the object from which it is projected, or as the hollow palm of one hand to the...
Page 68 - In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? 'Tis the clime of the East ; 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ?f Oh ! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.