 | George Peacock - 1855 - 514 pages
...remembered. Indeed, like most mathematicians, (though we hear of abstract mathematics,) he never seemed to think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult...engage his attention ; but he never spoke of morals, of metaphysics, or of religion. Of the last I never heard him say a word, nothing in favour of any... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1856
...remembered. Indeed, like most mathematicians—though we hear of abstract mathematics—he never seemed to think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult...engage his attention ; but he never spoke of morals, of metaphysics, or of religion."—Life, p. 116. When in Germany, he casually mentions, among his other... | |
 | George Peacock - 1855
...remembered. Indeed, like most mathematicians (though we hear of abstract mathematics), he never seemed to think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult...engage his attention ; but he never spoke of morals, of metaphysics, or of religion. Of the last I never heard him say a word, nothing in favour of any... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856
...remembered. Indeed, like most mathematicians—though we hear of abstract mathematics—he never seemed to think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult...engage his attention ; but he never spoke of morals, of metaphysics, or of religion."—Life, p. 116. These recollections, characteristic as they manifestly... | |
 | Bence Jones - History - 1871 - 431 pages
...remembered. Indeed, like most mathematicians (though we hear of abstract mathematics), he never seemed to think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult...engage his attention; but he never spoke of morals, of metaphysics, or of religion. Of the last I never heard him say a word, nothing in favour of any... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1887
...seldom gave an opinion, and never volunteered one ; never laid down the law, like other learned doctors, or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think...metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard him say a word. Nothing in favour of any sect or in opposition to any doctrine." The impression made... | |
 | John Tyndall - Philosophy - 1892 - 500 pages
...seldom gave an opinion, and never volunteered one ; never laid down the law like other learned doctors, or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think...metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard him say a word. Nothing in favour of any sect, or in opposition to any doctrine.' The impression made... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 500 pages
...laid down the law like other learned doctors, or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not thiuk abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult calculation,...metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard him say a word. Nothing in favour of any sect, or in opposition to any doctrine.' The impression made... | |
 | John Tyndall - Philosophy - 1896 - 500 pages
...seldom gave an opinion, and never volunteered one ; never laid down the law like other learned doctors, or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think...metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard him say a word. Nothing in favour of any sect, or in opposition to any doctrine.' The impression made... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1896
...seldom gave an opinion,'and never volunteered one; never laid down the law like other learned doctors, or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think...metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard him say a word. Nothing in favour of any sect, or in opposition to any doctrine.' The impression made... | |
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or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult calculation, an ingenious instrument, or a new invention, would engage his attention; but he never spoke of morals, or metaphysics, or religion. Of the... 
