A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... seen that the present volume contains more than the Athenæum Budget . Some of the additions formed a Supplement to the original articles . These supplementary paragraphs were , by the author , placed after those to which they ...
... seen that the present volume contains more than the Athenæum Budget . Some of the additions formed a Supplement to the original articles . These supplementary paragraphs were , by the author , placed after those to which they ...
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... seen more than one such magnitude of either kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use such ...
... seen more than one such magnitude of either kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use such ...
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... seen a few - think their secret too valuable , and prefer mutare quadrata rotundis - to turn dice into coin - at the gaming - house : verily they have their reward . I shall now select , to the mystic number seven , instances of my ...
... seen a few - think their secret too valuable , and prefer mutare quadrata rotundis - to turn dice into coin - at the gaming - house : verily they have their reward . I shall now select , to the mystic number seven , instances of my ...
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... seen it . This White ( Albius ) is the only quad- rator who was ever convinced of his error . My Jesuit was struck by the instance , and promised to read more geometry - he was no Clavius - before he published his book . He relapsed ...
... seen it . This White ( Albius ) is the only quad- rator who was ever convinced of his error . My Jesuit was struck by the instance , and promised to read more geometry - he was no Clavius - before he published his book . He relapsed ...
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... seen by the person who is called the writer of the article until after the appearance of the journal ; nay , if he be one of those - few , I daresay - who do not read their own articles , may never have been seen by him at all . Pos ...
... seen by the person who is called the writer of the article until after the appearance of the journal ; nay , if he be one of those - few , I daresay - who do not read their own articles , may never have been seen by him at all . Pos ...
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