The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3J. F. Dove, 1820 |
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... hath been said in the Analyst be not sufficient ; suppose that I had not leisure , or that I did not think it expedient , or that I had no mind to it . When a man thinks fit to publish any thing , either in mathematics , or in any other ...
... hath been said in the Analyst be not sufficient ; suppose that I had not leisure , or that I did not think it expedient , or that I had no mind to it . When a man thinks fit to publish any thing , either in mathematics , or in any other ...
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... hath nothing to do , you constantly endeavour to over- bear me with authorities , and load me with envy . If F see a sophism in the writings of a great author , and , in compliment to his understanding , suspect he could hard- VOL . III ...
... hath nothing to do , you constantly endeavour to over- bear me with authorities , and load me with envy . If F see a sophism in the writings of a great author , and , in compliment to his understanding , suspect he could hard- VOL . III ...
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... hath shewed himself an extraordinary mathematician , a profound naturalist , a person of the greatest abilities and erudition . Thus far I can readily go , but I cannot go to the lengths that you do . I shall never say of him as you do ...
... hath shewed himself an extraordinary mathematician , a profound naturalist , a person of the greatest abilities and erudition . Thus far I can readily go , but I cannot go to the lengths that you do . I shall never say of him as you do ...
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... hath been often observed , that the worst cause produceth the greatest clamour ; and indeed you are so clamorous throughout your defence , that the reader , although he should be no mathematician , pro- vided he understands common sense ...
... hath been often observed , that the worst cause produceth the greatest clamour ; and indeed you are so clamorous throughout your defence , that the reader , although he should be no mathematician , pro- vided he understands common sense ...
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... hath been premised , is that either may be deemed the fluxion . But you tell us ( p . 49 ) " that you think , the venerable ghost of Sir Isaac Newton whispers you , the velocity you seek for is neither the one nor the other of these ...
... hath been premised , is that either may be deemed the fluxion . But you tell us ( p . 49 ) " that you think , the venerable ghost of Sir Isaac Newton whispers you , the velocity you seek for is neither the one nor the other of these ...
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