 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...upon, but soon relinquished ; and he congratulates himself that he escaped from them, " before his mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence." This is an uncommon view of the effect of mathematical studies, but certainly deserves attention. An... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened...demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidt-nce, which must, however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with more... | |
 | History - 1807 - 772 pages
...understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I la. ment that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the...demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evi. dence, which must, however, deter, mine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with... | |
 | Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...widely as those of Mr. Gibbon, Mr. Hume, ami Bishop Watson. " As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics;...determine the actions and opinions of our lives." Life of Gibbon, 4to, p. 66. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfection* in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...without knowing it, was common to Warburton and himself. ' As soon as I understood. the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics,...determine the actions and. opinions of our lives.'' That rigid demonstration, of which the object is mathematical certainty, incapacitates the mind from... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 pages
...and never regretted that he desisted from that pursuit before his mind was " hardened by the habit of demonstration so destructive of the finer feelings...determine the actions and opinions of our lives." He proceeded to read Grotius and Puffendorf, and liked their .commentator Barbsyrac: he studied also... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstra' tion, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must, however, determine... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...by Gibbon in the following passage, is not true. — ' I desisted from the pursuit of mathematics, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence ; which determine the actions and opinions of our lives.' Are we not more benefited by the habits of close... | |
 | Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...conceived to be independent of themselves 1 ? 1 We are justified "As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics; nor can I lament that I desisted before iny mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...professor's lectures, without any active exercise of my own powers. As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics;...lament that I desisted before my mind was hardened hy the habit of rigid menced; and I think he shall take a short course of geometry, which will not... | |
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As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence,... 
