Alma mater; or, Seven years at the University of Cambridge. By a Trinity-man [J.M.F. Wright].Black, Young, and Young, Tavistock-Street, 1827 |
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... write out " all you read , and read and write some six or eight hours a day ; and then you will have no reason to repent of your abour . Don't be alarmed at your scanty progress in the mathematics . When I first entered college , Sir ...
... write out " all you read , and read and write some six or eight hours a day ; and then you will have no reason to repent of your abour . Don't be alarmed at your scanty progress in the mathematics . When I first entered college , Sir ...
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... write a declamation criminating myself ( by the way , this is not constitutional ) , and , in short , to do so many disagreeables , that the very recollection of them makes my pen drop . " There is no compulsion " in this Chapel - going ...
... write a declamation criminating myself ( by the way , this is not constitutional ) , and , in short , to do so many disagreeables , that the very recollection of them makes my pen drop . " There is no compulsion " in this Chapel - going ...
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... write down his conundrums with . " Quid rides " ? ? ” . T. Well , you must know , Peacock asked V. , " Pray , Mr. V. ( says he ) , is the moon opaque or transparent ? " - " Why r - r - really , Sir , I , I , am not p - p - prepared ...
... write down his conundrums with . " Quid rides " ? ? ” . T. Well , you must know , Peacock asked V. , " Pray , Mr. V. ( says he ) , is the moon opaque or transparent ? " - " Why r - r - really , Sir , I , I , am not p - p - prepared ...
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... write as well as the best of us - aye , and in the opinion of many folks , having travelled and seen a good deal of the higher spheres , would outshine us . He has a command of words which Professors Woodhouse and Vince never possessed ...
... write as well as the best of us - aye , and in the opinion of many folks , having travelled and seen a good deal of the higher spheres , would outshine us . He has a command of words which Professors Woodhouse and Vince never possessed ...
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... writing upon any every- day topic . T. I knew a man of this sort , of Trinity , who fagged , poor devil , night and day to get on , but failed with all his efforts . He used to read , upon an average , about fourteen hours a day , his ...
... writing upon any every- day topic . T. I knew a man of this sort , of Trinity , who fagged , poor devil , night and day to get on , but failed with all his efforts . He used to read , upon an average , about fourteen hours a day , his ...
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Seite 125 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Seite 263 - ... line and the extremities of the base have the same ratio which the other sides of the triangle have to one...
Seite 301 - How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight...
Seite 261 - The sum of the angles of a spherical triangle is greater than two and less than six right angles. Hyp. ABC is a spherical triangle. To prove ZA + ZB + ZG> 180°, and ZA + ZB + ZC<5±0°. Proof. Construct the polar triangle A'B'C', and denote the number of degrees in B'C', C'A', and A'B', respectively, by a, b, and c.
Seite 147 - FC; then, because each of the angles BAC, BAG is a right angle*, the two straight lines AC, AG upon the opposite sides of AB, make with it at the point A the adjacent angles equal to two right angles; therefore CA is in the same straight line...
Seite 259 - From the same demonstration it likewise follows that the arc which a body, uniformly revolving in a circle by means of a given centripetal force, describes in any time is a mean proportional between the diameter of the circle and the space which the same body falling by the same given force would descend through in the same given time.
Seite 10 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Seite 97 - Questionist has kept his full number of terms ; if not, the deficiency is mentioned in the supplicat, and a certificate explaining the cause is delivered to the Caput by the Father. The Registrary shews to the Caput that every candidate has subscribed that he is Lona fide a Member of the Church of England.
Seite 11 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Seite 85 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, and the included...