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6 May 1815

For Need of of the field of Mathematics for the purpose of Chrestomathia

1. In regard to Geometry, on the occasion of the exemplifications
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which have already been mentioned, and for
which reference has been made to the Appendix, several those

have already been brought to view.

But those which are seen are but those out of a
much greater number of imperfections, real or supposed which in the course of the enquiry
already mentioned, the pair of self-teaching
learners detected or supposed themselves to have detected brought or supposed themselves to have brought to light.
Without an adequate a motive no labour at all, much less any course
of labour so protracted persevering as that which was here necessary
was ever undertaken: and on this occasion, no motive in the character
of an adequate a necessary motive, and efficient cause none presented itself as being so analogous or in any all respects
so promising as the tr sort of triumph which in
every instance would follow attach itself upon success the supposition
of success. Many of those supposed triumphs the those adviser
remembers to have been occasionally reported by
these two pupils of upon the on the ground of a
few general hints, furnished at the outset, pupils
they could be called: and sometimes it was the Grecian
Sage, sometimes his disciple Simpson, sometimes
both both or one, the one and the other that were thus in imagination dragged at
the tail of the audacious striplings car. This a
This the enunciative part – one most lengthy and perplext proposition viz.
the enunciative part of it on the subject of proportions,
Simpson, who in his quality of modern could
be treated with this less ceremony, was not only d Simpson
it is perfected remembered, was not only drawn and
hanged, but gibbeted.

Identifier: | JB/018/108/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1	1815-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	108	Info in main headings field
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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