Five Years in an English UniversityG. P. Putnam & sons, 1873 - 562 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 560 - Principles Of Human Knowledge 1. OBJECTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.—It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either IDEAS actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination—either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Σελίδα 560 - By sight I have the ideas of light and colours with their several degrees and variations. By touch I perceive, for example, hard and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance, and of all these more and less either as to quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours, the palate with tastes, and hearing conveys sounds to the mind in all their variety of tone and composition.
Σελίδα 370 - Arithmetic ; and the elementary parts of Algebra ; namely, the rules for the fundamental operations upon algebraical symbols with their proofs, the solution of simple and quadratic equations, ratio and proportion, arithmetical, geometrical and harmouical progression, permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem, and logarithms.
Σελίδα 560 - Thus, for example, a certain color, taste, smell, figure and consistence having been observed to go together, are accounted one distinct thing, signified by the name apple. Other collections of ideas constitute a stone, a tree, a book, and the like sensible things; which, as they are pleasing or disagreeable, excite the passions of love, hatred, joy, grief, and so forth.
Σελίδα 13 - The sage council, as has been mentioned in a preceding chapter, not being able to determine upon any plan for the building of their city, — the cows, in a laudable fit of patriotism, took it under their peculiar charge, and, as they went to and from pasture, established paths through the bushes, on each side of which the good folks built their houses, — which is one cause of the rambling and picturesque turns and labyrinths which distinguish certain streets of New York at this very day.
Σελίδα 371 - The elementary parts of Astronomy, so far as they are necessary for the explanation of the more simple phenomena, without the use of spherical trigonometry ; astronomical instruments.
Σελίδα 520 - ... surface is equal to the product of the length of the curve into the length of the path described by its centre of gravity.
Σελίδα 560 - And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one THING. Thus, for example, a certain colour, taste, smell, figure, and consistence having been observed to go together, are accounted one distinct thing, signified by the name apple...
Σελίδα 517 - The spherical excess of any spherical polygon is equal to the excess of the sum of its angles over two right angles taken as many times as the polygon has sides, less two.
Σελίδα 356 - University," beg leave to commence their Report with a brief account of the present state of instruction in that department of study. IN the Previous Examination and in the Ordinary Examination for the BA degree, the University requires an acquaintance with one of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in the original Greek, with Paley's Evidences and Paley's Moral Philosophy. The other encouragements and aids to Theological studies offered at present by the University (in addition to what is done...