The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Remains of Ancient Art . Life by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman , Canon of St. Peter's . London : 1849 . 2. The Life of Torquato Tasso . By the Rev. R. Mil- man . 2 vols . London : 1850 , · . 468 . 491 • 504 . 533 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW ...
... Remains of Ancient Art . Life by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman , Canon of St. Peter's . London : 1849 . 2. The Life of Torquato Tasso . By the Rev. R. Mil- man . 2 vols . London : 1850 , · . 468 . 491 • 504 . 533 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW ...
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... remains behind , however , this inquiry , — which we have known to occur as a difficulty to intellects of the first order , Why do events , on the long run , conform to the laws of probability ? What is the cause of this phenomenon as a ...
... remains behind , however , this inquiry , — which we have known to occur as a difficulty to intellects of the first order , Why do events , on the long run , conform to the laws of probability ? What is the cause of this phenomenon as a ...
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... remains concealed . So again , an examina- tion of the elements of all known cometary orbits has disclosed a tendency to direct or easterly motion , increasing in the degree of its prominence with the approach to coincidence of the ...
... remains concealed . So again , an examina- tion of the elements of all known cometary orbits has disclosed a tendency to direct or easterly motion , increasing in the degree of its prominence with the approach to coincidence of the ...
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... remains no pos- sibility of applying the theory of probabilities to any registered facts whatever . We set out with a certain hypothesis as to the chances : granting which , we calculate the probability , not of one certain definite ...
... remains no pos- sibility of applying the theory of probabilities to any registered facts whatever . We set out with a certain hypothesis as to the chances : granting which , we calculate the probability , not of one certain definite ...
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... . On this hypothesis I can judge relatively whether one year has produced more or less crimes than another . ' Admitting that this ratio remains invariable from year to year , and that justice pursues criminals with the same activity ,
... . On this hypothesis I can judge relatively whether one year has produced more or less crimes than another . ' Admitting that this ratio remains invariable from year to year , and that justice pursues criminals with the same activity ,
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Página 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Página 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
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Página 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.