...fpeculations about this period. It is entitled, An EJay on Quantity, occafioned by reading a Treatife, in which, Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit j and mews plainly, by its contents, that, although he had not yet entirely rethe favourite refearches...

...splendour without the preparatory process. 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 al. though he had not yet entirely relinquished the favourite researches of his youth, he was beginning...

...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 some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading...

...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 some light with respect to the progress of his studies at the time when it was written. It is entitled, " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading...

...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 ' Enquiry into the Origin of our ideas of Beauty and Virtue,'...

...Public comme AppcndU au 3e vol. des Sketches de lord liâmes. 8° An Essay on quantity, occasioned by a Treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to vi'rtue and raerit. Publié dam les Transactions philosophiques de 1748. , — Works to which is prefixed an account...

...must be acknowledged, that the accounts heretofore given of it, were very lame, and wide of the truth. AN ESSAY ON QUANTITY:* OCCASIONED BY READING A TREATISE...AND COMPOUND RATIOS ARE APPLIED TO VIRTUE AND MERIT. I. What quantity is. — SINCE mathematical demonstration is thought to carry a peculiar evidence along...

...in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1 748, affords somo light with respect to the progress of his speculations...Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise in which Simple n ml Compound Ratios are anplied to Virtue and The RL'v. William Strunzen. Merit ;" and shews plainly,...

...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...

...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,'...