 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 strani
...light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is intituled, " An Essay on quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favourite researchesof... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 strani
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his speculations about this period. It is entitled, An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit; and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely relinquishedthe favourite... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 strani
...light'with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it \vas written. It is entitled «' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit ;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished 3 R 2 the favourite... | |
 | 1816 - 536 strani
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
 | 1816 - 536 strani
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
 | 1816 - 534 strani
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748. It was entitled " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," and shews plainly, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 strani
...fpeculations about this period. It is entitled, An EJfay on Quantity, occajioned by reading a Treatife, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit; and fhews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely relinquifhed the favourite... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 strani
...affords some light with respect to the progress of his speculations about this period. It is entitled " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a treatise,...compound ratios are applied to virtue, and merit;" and shews plainly, by its contents, that al. though he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 strani
...the mind, I apprehend that it is proper to defer the consideration of it till these be explained. AM ESSAY ON QUANTITY; OCCASIONED BY READING A TREATISE...IN WHICH SIMPLE AND COMPOUND RATIOS ARE APPLIED TO yIRTUE AND MERIT *. Mathematics contain properly the doctrine of measure ; and the object of this science... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 430 strani
...studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by readinga Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit;" and shows plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not entirely relinquished the favorite researches... | |
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An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit." In 1752 he was elected Professor of Moral Philosophy in King's College, Old Aberdeen. Soon after his removal there, in conjunction... 
