PascalW. Blackwood, 1878 - 205 pages |
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Page 193 - Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing.
Page 92 - Feu. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob. non des philosophes et des savants. Certitude, certitude, sentiment, joie, paix. Dieu de Jésus-Christ. Deum meum et Deum vestrum. Ton Dieu sera mon Dieu.
Page 10 - If a side of any triangle be produced, the exterior angle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles ; and the three interior angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles.
Page 189 - reason ' to demand of the ' heart ' proofs of its first principles before asserting them, as it would be for the ' heart ' to demand of the 'reason ' a feeling of all propositions that she demonstrates before accepting them.
Page 91 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 46 - ... mechanical machine for multiplying forces,' — an effect which, he says, may be produced to any extent we choose, as one may, by means of this machine, raise a weight of any magnitude. This new machine is the Hydrostatic Press, first introduced by our celebrated countryman, Mr. Bramah. " Pascal's treatise on the weight of the whole mass of air forms the basis of the modern science of Pneumatics. In order to prove .that the mass of air presses by its weight on all the bodies which it surrounds,...