 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 572 pages
...Philosophical Transactions of London in 1748, and was entitled, An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. In 1752 the professors of King's College, Aberdeen, elected him professor of philosophy. In 1763 he... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...his appointment he had published a very acute paper in the ' Philosophical Transactions' for 1748, entitled, 'An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading...compound ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' The treatise alluded to was Hutcheson's i Enquiry into the Origin of our ideas of Beauty and Virtue,'... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...retained his attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1748, affords...and Merit, and shews plainly by its contents, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth, he was beginning... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 pages
...retained his attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1748, affords...in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtne and Merit, and shews plainly by its contents, that although he had not yet entirely relinquished... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 542 pages
...to his school a cock with his feathers plucked off, desiring to hiiow whether it was a man or not. AN ESSAY ON QUANTITY;* OCCASIONED BY READING A TREATISE...AND COMPOUND RATIOS ARE APPLIED TO VIRTUE AND MERIT. Sixes it ia thought that mathematical demonstration carries a peculiar evidence along with it, which... | |
 | William Anderson - 1863 - 800 pages
...George Reid, physician in London. In 1748 he communicated to the Transactions of the Royal Society ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise,...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' In 1752 he was elected professor of moral philosophy in King's college, Old Aberdeen. Soon after his... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 552 pages
...to his school a cock with his feathers plucked off, desiring to know whether it was a man or not AS ESSAY ON QUANTITY;* OCCASIONED BY READING A TREATISE IN WHICH SIMPLE AND COMPOUND RATIOS ARK AI'I'LIMI TO VIRTUE AND MERIT. SINCE it is thought thnt mathematical demonstration carries a peculiar... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 534 pages
...inserted iu tbe ' Transactions of the Royal Society of London ' ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to virtue and merit.' In other words, it was an essay on the application of mathematics to morale. Doctors Pitcairne and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 pages
...inserted in the ' Transactions of the Royal Society of London ' ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by a treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to virtue aud merit.' In other words, it was an essay on the application of mathematics to morals. Doctors Pitcairne... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 pages
...in print. In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, he published a paper in titled, ' An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' In 1752, he was elected Professor of Philosophy, in King's College, Aberdeen. It is worthy of remark,... | |
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An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit... 
