 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pagina’s
...Mr. Gladstone, that, as respects religion, "the association of these two ideas, activity of inquiry, and variety of conclusion, is a fallacious one." We...value. Our way of ascertaining the tendency of free inquiry is simply to open our eyes and look at the world in which we live; and there we see that free... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pagina’s
...sensual gratification deserves for a moment to be compared with the joy of Pythagoras, on discovering that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of the right angled triangle; with the transport of Archimedes, when he sprung out... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1852 - 308 pagina’s
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in^he affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact, and... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pagina’s
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1853 - 498 pagina’s
...proposition that the sum of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side ; or the theorem, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ; and they would never differ in their conceptions of these two truths. But the more... | |
 | Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin - 1853 - 326 pagina’s
...demonstrate geometrical truths, I asked whether they were perfectly convinced that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain of this fact,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1857 - 508 pagina’s
...people mean fixed feelings or convictions : nothing can be fixed without proof. It is a fixed principle that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right angle triangle ; but to bet on a horse is not so, it is only a fixed feeling... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pagina’s
...Mr. Gladstone, that, as respects religion, " the association of these two ideas, activity Ь inquiry tion to the Prince of Orange, would have been traitors...country. But such a result was out of the question. All inquiry is simply to open our eyes and look at the world in which we live, and there we see that free... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1859 - 494 pagina’s
...required side : the required side. When the angles are not required, the side may thus be found : — The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides, whence the square of one side is equal to the difference of the squares of the hypothenuse and of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 pagina’s
...Mr. Gladstone, that, as respects religion " the association of these two ideas, activity of inquiry, and variety of conclusion, is a fallacious one." We...value. Our way of ascertaining the tendency of free inquiry is simply to open our eyes and look at the world in which we live ; and there we see that free... | |
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... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides. 
