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Page 12
... Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ; so she guards them by a cer- tain aridity . If these had been good fellows , fond of dancing , port , and clubs , we should have had no Theory of the Sphere " and no " Principia . " They had ...
... Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ; so she guards them by a cer- tain aridity . If these had been good fellows , fond of dancing , port , and clubs , we should have had no Theory of the Sphere " and no " Principia . " They had ...
Page 158
... Archimedes ; now it only needs a fireman , and a boy to know the coppers , to pull up the handles or mind the water - tank . But when the engine breaks , they can do nothing . - What sickening details in the daily journals ! I believe ...
... Archimedes ; now it only needs a fireman , and a boy to know the coppers , to pull up the handles or mind the water - tank . But when the engine breaks , they can do nothing . - What sickening details in the daily journals ! I believe ...
Page 249
... Archimedes , and cheerily proceeds a step farther . Courage is equality to the problem , in affairs , in science , in trade , in council , or in action ; consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior ...
... Archimedes , and cheerily proceeds a step farther . Courage is equality to the problem , in affairs , in science , in trade , in council , or in action ; consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior ...
Page 254
... Archimedes , the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram , heedless of the siege and sack of the city ; and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes . Each is strong , relying on his own , and each is betrayed when he ...
... Archimedes , the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram , heedless of the siege and sack of the city ; and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes . Each is strong , relying on his own , and each is betrayed when he ...
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