 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pages
...mature age of thirty-eight, that he published in the." Transactions of the Royal Society of London," " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit." Francis Hutcheson had spoken of the benevolence of an agent — which with him constitutes virtue —... | |
 | William Anderson - 1867 - 772 pages
...1748 he communicated to the Transactions of the Royal Society ' An Essay ou Quantity, occasioned hy reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' In 1752 he was elected professor of moral philosophy in King's college, Old Aherdeen. Soou after his... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1884 - 140 pages
...was an " Essay on Quantity," which was occasioned by reading the work of Dr. Hutcheson, of Glasgow, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. In 1752, Reid was elected Professor of Philosophy in King's College, Aberdeen. His academical lectures... | |
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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... 
