 | John Aikin - 1803 - 646 pages
...mathematics he touched upon, but soon relinquished; and he congratulates himself that he escaped from them, " before his mind was hardened by the habit of rigid...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence," This is an uncommon view of the effect of mathematical studies, but certainly deserves attention. An... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidt-nce, which must, however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with more... | |
 | 1807 - 772 pages
...relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I la. ment that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evi. dence, which must, however, deter, mine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with... | |
 | 1822 - 428 pages
...I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics; nor can I lament that I desisted before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...determine the actions and opinions of our lives." Life of Gibbon, 4to, p. 66. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfection* in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with more pleasure to the proposal of studying the law of nature and nations, which was... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 pages
...and never regretted that he desisted from that pursuit before his mind was " hardened by the habit of demonstration so destructive of the finer feelings...determine the actions and opinions of our lives." He proceeded to read Grotius and Puffendorf, and liked their .commentator Barbsyrac: he studied also... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstra' tion, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence,...however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives. 1 listened with more pleasure to the proposal of studying the law of nature and nations, which was... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...in the following passage, is not true. — ' I desisted from the pursuit of mathematics, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence ; which determine the actions and opinions of our lives.' Are we not more benefited by the habits of close... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...Xenophon's Cyropœdia, the Iliad, and Herodotus : but, upon the whole, I rather neglected my Greek. demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings...of moral evidence, which must however determine the Extract of a Letter from Mr PAVILLIARD to EDWAKD GIBBON, Esq. MONSIEUR, Jan. 14, 1758. J'ai eu l'honneur... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...* relinquished the pursuit of the Mathematics before hits mind was hardened by the habit of ri.iid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings...discussion, to which he had early in life been accustomed, lt|>. Watson in the Sciences of Metaphysics, and of Natural and Revealed Religion, professed to have... | |
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As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence,... 
