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" As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; 3 nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence... "
The Classical Journal - Page 296
1822
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General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most ..., Volume 4

John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...upon, but soon relinquished ; and he congratulates himself that he escaped from them, " before his mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence." This is an uncommon view of the effect of mathematical studies, but certainly deserves attention. An...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...receive the passive impression of my Professor's lectures, without anjr active exercise of my own powers. As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration,...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 38

1807 - 772 pages
...understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I la. ment that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the...demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evi. dence, which must, however, deter, mine the actions and opinions of our lives. I listened with...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; not can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstra' tion, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must, however, determine...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ...

1834 - 614 pages
...by Gibbon in the following passage, is not true. — ' I desisted from the pursuit of mathematics, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid...destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence ; which determine the actions and opinions of our lives.' Are we not more benefited by the habits of close...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 26

1822 - 428 pages
...own mind on circumstances which they conceived to be independent of themselves 1 ? 1 We are justified "As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished...mathematics; nor can I lament that I desisted before iny mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...receive the passive impression of my professor's lectures, without any active exercise of my own powers. As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished...lament that I desisted before my mind was hardened hy the habit of rigid menced; and I think he shall take a short course of geometry, which will not...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...receive the passive impression of my professor's lectures, without any active exercise of my own powers. As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished...before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid menced; and I think he shall take a short course of geometry, which will not occupy him more than seven...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 4

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...to perfection, knows all things.* Yet Gibbon asserts of the mathematics, that they harden the mind by the habit of rigid demonstration ; so destructive...of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must determine the actions and opinions of our lives. Surely no one thoroughly initiated into the evidences...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...passive urpressionof my Professor's lectures, without any active exercise of my own power«. A.« iOon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the m&tfaeautici ; nor can I lament lliat I desisted, bclorc my mind was hardened by the habu и rigid...
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