The Hunterian Oration, Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, February 14, 1842 |
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Page 12 - To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 22 - I thank you for your experiment on the hedgehog but why do you ask me a question by the way of solving it ? I think your solution is just, but why think — why not try the experiment...
Page 17 - Inductionem censemus eam esse demonstrandi formam, quae sensum tuetur, et naturam premit, et operibus imminet, ac fere immiscetur. Itaque ordo quoque demonstrandi plane invertitur. Adhuc enim res ita geri consuevit, ut a sensu et particularibus primo loco ad maxime generalia advoletur, tanquam ad polos fixos, circa quos disputationes vertantur; ab illis caetera, per media, deriventur; via certe compendiaria, sed praecipiti, et ad naturam impervia, ad disputationes proclivi et accommodata.
Page 19 - And in the school of sacred wisdom taught To read his wonders, in whose thought the world, Fair as it is, existed ere it was.
Page 23 - In constituendo autem axiomate, forma inductionis alia, quam adhuc in usu fuit, excogitanda est ; caque non ad principia tantum (qua?