Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton: Knt., LL. D., D. C. L., M. R. I. A., Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, Etc. Etc.: Including Selections from His Poems, Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 3Hodges, Figgis, & Company, 1889 |
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Page 237 - To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted : and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external world is fitted to the mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 238 - And Reason now through number, time, and space, Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye, And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace, Whose long progression leads to Deity.
Page 423 - A student of mine asked me today to give him a reason for a fact which I did not know was a fact — and do not yet. He says that if a figure be anyhow divided and the compartments differently coloured so that figures with any portion of common boundary line are differently coloured — four colours may be wanted, but no more.
Page 639 - Centauri, and the Cross; while to the north it fades away pale and dim, and is in comparison hardly traceable. I think it is impossible to view this splendid zone, with the astonishingly rich and...
Page 433 - Are you sure that it is impossible to trisect the angle by Euclid? I have not to lament a single hour thrown away on the attempt, but fancy that it is rather a tact, a feeling, than a proof, which makes us think that the thing cannot be done. But would Gauss's inscription of the regular polygon of seventeen sides have seemed, a century ago, much less an impossible thing, by line and circle?
Page 639 - ... almost vacant parts of its general mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be much nearer to the parts about the Cross than to that diametrically opposed to it.
Page 246 - Zeit nicht, ohne indem wir im Ziehen einer geraden Linie (die die äußerlich figürliche Vorstellung der Zeit sein soll) bloß auf die Handlung der Synthesis des Mannigfaltigen, dadurch wir den inneren Sinn successiv bestimmen, und dadurch auf die Succession dieser Bestimmung in demselben Acht haben.