 Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body by the help of a Quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the Proportion of Twelve to One, they concluded...  Notes and Queries - Page 941878Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 342 pages
...Court how they came to fix on that determinate Number ; he told me, that his Majefty's Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body by the help of a Quadrant, and finding it to ex-1 ceed theirs in the Proportion oE Twelve to One, they concluded, from the Similarity of their Bodies,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pages
...they came to fix on that determinate Number ; he told me, that his Majefty's Mathematicians, iaving taken the Height of my Body by the Help of a Quadrant, and finding it to ex.ceed theirs m the Proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the Similarity of their Bodies, that mine muft... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pages
...on that determinate Number ; he told me, that his Majefty's Mathematicians, having taken the Heighth of my Body by the Help of a Quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the Proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the Similarity of their Bodies, that mine muft contain... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 416 pages
...court, how they came to fix on that determinate number ; he told me, that his Majefty's mathematicians having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the fimilarity of their bodies, that mine muft contain... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 412 pages
...court, how they came to fix on that determinate number ; he told me, that his Majefty's mathematicians having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded, from the fimilarity of their bodies, that mine mi- ft... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 468 pages
...on that determinate number ; he told me, that his majefty's mathematicians having taken the heighth of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the fimilarity of their bodies, that mine muft Contain... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...court how they came to fix on that determinate number; he told me that his majefty's mathematicians having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded, from the fimilarity of their bodies, that mine muft contain... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...court how they came to fix on that determinate number; he told me that his majcfty's mathematicians having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and rinding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, th-y concluded, from the fimilarity... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...on that determined number ; he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the heighth of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs, in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 pages
...court how they came to fix on that determined number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain... | |
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