...in the " Transactions " of the Royal Society of London, and "Collected Works," vol. x, p. 251. was entitled, "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit." The "Treatise" to which Reid alludes was Hutcheson's "Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty...

...National Biography. [But Wesley speaks of his "ingenious Essay"; ie, An Essay on Quantity, on occasion of reading a treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. This, in criticism of Hutcheson, is in Philosophical Transactions, 1748. — AG\ June 24, 1774. WILSON,...

...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions...

...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The *' Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a. mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions...

...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions...

...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions...

...retained his attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical Transactions of :u Yљ <iW s { M N ; urt 㢓F ={ 8 彧 1 ڵs |+ U ... S H =3 Q+ # 0( ( E ʲ 26! + D Comuound Ratios are auplied to Virtue and • Thp Rcv. tVilliani blivn.tcn. Merit ;" and shews plainly,...

...paper, which appeared in 1748. The full title of (his essay is "An Kssay on Quantity, Occasioned bv Reading a Treatise in Which Simple and Compound Ratios Are Applied to Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue." According to Dugald Stewart, the treatise referred to is Hutchinson's...

...Mr. Baker's upon the Minuteness of the Seeds of Some Plants," PT 46 (1749/50): 334-38. 59Henry Miles, "An Essay on Quantity; Occasioned by Reading a Treatise,...and Compound Ratios Are Applied to Virtue and Merit, by the Rev Mr. Reid," PT 45 (1748): 505-20, on 506. """John Pringle, "A Continuation of the Experiments...

...1737, a position in the gift of the other Aberdonian college, King's. Reid's first publication was, 'An Essay on Quantity; Occasioned by Reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are Applied to Virtue and Merit'. Written while Minister of New Machar and presented to the Royal Society in 1748, it is a criticism...