American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Tom 2Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... kind of authority ; this may be called argu- mentum ad verecundiam . Secondly , another way is , to require the adversaries to admit what they allege as a proof , or to assign a better ; this he calls argumentum ad ignorantiam . A third ...
... kind of authority ; this may be called argu- mentum ad verecundiam . Secondly , another way is , to require the adversaries to admit what they allege as a proof , or to assign a better ; this he calls argumentum ad ignorantiam . A third ...
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... kind of sun - dial , men- tioned by Vitruvius . There is now extant only a treatise upon the magnitude and distance of the sun and moon , which was translated into the Latin , and comment- ed upon by Commandine , who published it , with ...
... kind of sun - dial , men- tioned by Vitruvius . There is now extant only a treatise upon the magnitude and distance of the sun and moon , which was translated into the Latin , and comment- ed upon by Commandine , who published it , with ...
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... kind has been productive , in several in- stances , of disastrous revolutions , and the people have concurred with the reigning prince in exchanging their condition for the miseries of despotism . This was the case in Denmark about the ...
... kind has been productive , in several in- stances , of disastrous revolutions , and the people have concurred with the reigning prince in exchanging their condition for the miseries of despotism . This was the case in Denmark about the ...
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... kind of addition is of frequent and extensive use , in order to shorten the operation , we mark down the number only once , and conceive it to be repeated as often as there are units in the multipli er . For this purpose , the learner ...
... kind of addition is of frequent and extensive use , in order to shorten the operation , we mark down the number only once , and conceive it to be repeated as often as there are units in the multipli er . For this purpose , the learner ...
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... kind will readily oc- cur to the learner . 3. To multiply by 9 , which is one less than 10 , we may annex a cypher , and sub- tract the multiplicand from the number it composes . To multiply by 99,999 , or any number of 9's , annex as ...
... kind will readily oc- cur to the learner . 3. To multiply by 9 , which is one less than 10 , we may annex a cypher , and sub- tract the multiplicand from the number it composes . To multiply by 99,999 , or any number of 9's , annex as ...
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Strona 22 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Strona 22 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...