 | 1883 - 648 pages
...accomplish as much as their neighbor. They need to be taught, as Thomas Carlyle says in Sartor Resartus, that " The fraction of life can be increased in value...your numerator as by lessening your denominator." Very often, in the home treatment of cases of neurasthenia, some member of the family needs to be dealt... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 288 pages
...thou deservest to be hanged hi a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be...value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by kssening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...thou deservest to be hanged in a hair-halter, ' it will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of ' Life can be increased in value not so much by in' creasing your Numerator as by lessening your De' nominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...thou deservest to be hanged in a hair-halter, ' it will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of ' Life can be increased in value not so much by in' creasing your Numerator as by lessening your De' nominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 pages
...thou deserves! to be hanged in a hair-halter, ' it will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of ' Life can be increased in value not so muck by in' creasing your Numerator as by lessening your De' nominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 676 pages
...fancy that thou ' deservest to be hanged in a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to ' die in hemp. ' So true it is, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be ' increased in value not to muck by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator. Nay. unless my Algebra detirn... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in ' a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. ' So true it is, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can lie ' increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1862 - 656 pages
...fancy that thou ' deservest to be hanged in a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to ' die in hemp. ' So true it is, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be 1 increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator. Nay,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1867 - 802 pages
...primitiveness of mind and feeling. Truly in the country does one recognise Carlyle's quaint proposition that "the Fraction of Life can be increased in value,...your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator." Mrs. Bennett and Aunt Lotty demonstrated this theorem without being aware of it; for the simple mind... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...in general, good brown ochre is the complexion of it. Bishop Warburton, Letter 14 Feb. 1742. LIFE. THE fraction of life can be increased in value, not...your numerator, as by lessening your denominator. Richter. LIFE. MAN has here two-and-a-half minutes, — one to smile, one to sigh, and a half-a-one... | |
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I then said, that the Fraction of Life ' can be increased in value not so much by increasing your ^' Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, un- 30 'less my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by ' Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim... 
