 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...and not positively, but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ralio of these to the whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit may be a planet's,... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...the ratio of these to the icfiole diarr.eter, which constitutes the real aberration. With the world, this orbit may be a planet's, its diameter the breadth...it may be a city hippodrome, nay, the circle of a mill-course, its diameter a score of feet or paces — but the inches aftlcfltction, only, are measured... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, Uian on what is, or is not, done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical...aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter Ihe breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle of a gin-horse,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...less on what is done right, than on what is, or is not, done wrong. Not the few inches of reflection from the mathematical orbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these \a the whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This orbit may be a planet's, its diameter... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...than on what is, or is not, done wrong. Not the few inches of reflection from the mathematical orhit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these...a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, ita diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured ; and it is assumed... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...and not positively but negatively less on what is done right than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical orbit which are easily measured, but the ratio of these to the whole diameter constitutes the real aberration. This... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...less on what is done right, than on what is, or is not, done wrong. Not the few inches of reflection al cily hippodrome; nay, the circle of a ginhorse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...and not positively but negatively ; less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical...solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome, nay even the circle of a gin-horse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection... | |
 | 1880 - 832 pages
...than on what is or is not done wrong. N..t the few inches of reflection from the mathematical i rbit, which are so easily measured, but the ratio of these...or it may be a city hippodrome ; nay, the circle of the ginhorse, its diameter a score of feet or paces. But the inches of deflection only are measured... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...and not positively but negatively, less on what is done right, than on what is or is not done wrong. Not the few inches of deflection from the mathematical...whole diameter, constitutes the real aberration. This o^bit may be a planet's, its diameter the breadth of the solar system ; or it may be a city hippodrome;... | |
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But the world is habitually unjust in its judgments of 'such men; unjust on many grounds, of which this one may be stated as the substance: It decides, like a court of law, by dead statutes; and not positively, but negatively, less on what is done right,... 
