Liber Cantabrigiensis: An Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the Encouragements Offered to Diligent Students, and the Rewards Conferred on Successful Students, in the University of Cambridge; to which is Prefixed, a Collection of Maxims, Aphorisms, &c, Volume 2Printed at the University Press, 1863 |
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... drawn up under the advice of Sir Isaac Newton , Mr. Flamsteed , the celebrated astronomer , and Sir J. Ellis , Master of Gonville and Caius College . The duties of the professor were prescribed , " and the series of observations which ...
... drawn up under the advice of Sir Isaac Newton , Mr. Flamsteed , the celebrated astronomer , and Sir J. Ellis , Master of Gonville and Caius College . The duties of the professor were prescribed , " and the series of observations which ...
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... drawn up for the regulation of the professorship , a draft of which is in existence ; but there is no evidence that any deed founded upon it was ever executed . It prescribes a course of duties , and directs that the subjects of the ...
... drawn up for the regulation of the professorship , a draft of which is in existence ; but there is no evidence that any deed founded upon it was ever executed . It prescribes a course of duties , and directs that the subjects of the ...
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... draw up a scheme of regulations for the institution of the prize . The report of the Syndicate was confirmed by a Grace of the Senate on February 21 , 1855 ; and it was ordered that the subjects of the examination should be , in general ...
... draw up a scheme of regulations for the institution of the prize . The report of the Syndicate was confirmed by a Grace of the Senate on February 21 , 1855 ; and it was ordered that the subjects of the examination should be , in general ...
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... drawn from passion , prejudice , or interest . They have learned to break up an argument into its elementary steps , and to apply , if not those exact tests which mathematicians apply , at least some tests , founded on the true ...
... drawn from passion , prejudice , or interest . They have learned to break up an argument into its elementary steps , and to apply , if not those exact tests which mathematicians apply , at least some tests , founded on the true ...
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... Draw a straight line touching two given circles . 4. Is a ratio of greater inequality increased or diminished by adding the same quantity to both its terms ? Can you see this at once by taking an extreme case ? 5. Explain the difference ...
... Draw a straight line touching two given circles . 4. Is a ratio of greater inequality increased or diminished by adding the same quantity to both its terms ? Can you see this at once by taking an extreme case ? 5. Explain the difference ...
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Page 18 - Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man ; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.
Page 14 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 7 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 15 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 59 - While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx, and began to hem him round With ported spears, as thick as when a field Of Ceres, ripe for harvest, waving bends Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind Sways them ; the careful ploughman doubting stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
Page 67 - Survey'd ; and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.
Page 19 - TRIANGLES upon the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 4 - Queen's highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal...
Page 61 - IN a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle to the base, the triangles on each side of it are similar to the whole triangle, and to one another.
Page 10 - If a solid angle be contained by three plane angles, any two of them are greater than the third.