 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...and doubtful. This day may "possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in gen" eral, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent his" torian of nature, [Huffon,]w ho fixes our moral happiness to the " mature season in which our... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1917 - 250 Seiten
...probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years,3 and I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most...His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of Nature,4 who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which our passions are supposed to... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1917 - 246 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years,3 and I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 Seiten
...the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last; but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years, and I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgement and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years . . . ; and I shall soon enter into the period, which, as the most agreable... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 438 Seiten
...accurately adapted to fit it. Galton, Francis Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (p. 66) . . . but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Gibbon, Edward Gibbon's Autobiography (p. 124) "Law" means a rule which we have always found to hold... | |
 | David Ropeik, George M. Gray - 2002 - 500 Seiten
...outcomes each year. It is not a chart of your individual risk. As the historian Edward Gibbon wrote, "The laws of probability. So true in general. So fallacious in particular." Your individual risk depends on dozens of factors unique to your lifestyle, genetics, socioeconomic... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 Seiten
...somewhat disingenuously to say the least - and 'probability' was on his side: 'this day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years'. Yet, as he admitted, 'probability', though strong in the general case, was... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 Seiten
...the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general,...most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgement and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of... | |
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I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature... 
