"Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen" (1827) Tr. James Caddall Morehead & Adam Miller Hiltebeitel in General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825 (1902)
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Pt. I, sec. 1, "The Principle of Economy"
The Philosophy of Style (1852)
Context: There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.
Alfred Stillé book The Essentials of the Art of Medicine
The Essentials of the Art of Medicine. 1897. p 26.
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
Context: Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. Hence, a knowledge what to select and how to pursue, is as necessary to the highest happiness as virtue herself. Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. <!-- p. 9
William Adams (1706–1789) Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American historian
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)
Atul Gawande book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
