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,... The North American Review - Page 4421835Full view - About this book
| Medicine - 1883 - 648 pages
...be taught, as Thomas Carlyle says in Sartor Resartus, that " The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing 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 - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...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...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
...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,...our time write • " It is only with Renunciation (Entiageri) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin." 'I asked myself: What is this that,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...be increased in value not so much by in' creasing your Numerator as by lessening your De' nominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, ' Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make ' thy clajm of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world ' under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time... | |
| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...discovered anything which the martyrs did not see ages ago? And when 'he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly, speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...luxury to ' die in hemp. ' So true it is, what I then said, that the fraction of Life can be ' increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator...did the Wisest of our time write : " It is only with Renun' ciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to ' begin." 'I asked myself: What... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...So true it is, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be ' increased in value not to muck by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator. Nay. unless my Algebra detirn ' me. Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make tkr ' claim of wages a zero, then... | |
| Conduct of life - 1856 - 386 pages
...the balance should so often dip the wrong way True it is that the fraction of life can be increased in value, not so much by increasing your numerator,...wisest of our time write: It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. I asked myself, What is this that, ever since earliest... | |
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