 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, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero,...  Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion - Page 2351856Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 294 pages
...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...of our time write : " It is only with Renunciation (Enttagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin." 'I asked myself: What is this that,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 288 pages
...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 increased in 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... | |
 | 1835 - 724 pages
...luxury to die in hemp. " ' So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be inrreased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator,...wisest of our time write: "It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " I asked myself: what is this that,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...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,...of our time write : ' It is only with renunciation (Entsagen*) that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " "I asked myself: What is this that,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...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
...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
...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 - 1846 - 490 pages
...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...of our time write : " It is only with Renun'ciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to ' begin." ' I asked myself : What is this that,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 260 pages
...increasing your Numerator as Sy ^r " V ' fk \ . • t-. S*. ft • /L> fL cy. xX v s<s 148 SARTOR RESARTUS. lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra...itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy daii'i "f wgges a KP.TO, the.n ; thou_hf s t the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time... | |
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