| 1841 - 508 էջ
...cannot amount to more than a moderate probability, — and for the unlearned has no existence whatever. The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. The weakest link in the documentary proof must measure the confidence which such minds can repose in... | |
| 1841 - 500 էջ
...cannot amount to more than a moderate probability, — and for the unlearned has no existence whatever. The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. The weakest link in the documentary proof must measure the confidence which such minds can repose in... | |
| 1918 - 758 էջ
...American citizenship then let us all remember and with unvarying constancy, that here as elsewhere the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. As a product myself of the helpful co-operation of the AMA in the educational mark in my native state... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1904 - 750 էջ
...tin, because tenacity must depend upon the weakest cohesive attraction existing in a substance, just as the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. As a matter of fact, gray tin seems to possess far less tenacity than white tin, for the former is... | |
| Alexander Mackay, James Robertson (of Manchester, Eng.) - 1853 - 484 էջ
...course of the finest road in Western India, and along which so large a traffic to and fro takes place. As the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest part, so the goodness or badness of a road is, for all practical purposes, to be estimated by the goodness... | |
| Alexander Mackay, James Robertson (of Manchester, Eng.) - 1853 - 482 էջ
...course of the finest road in Western India, and along which so large a traffic to and fro takes place. As the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest part, so the goodness or badness of a road is, for all practical purposes, to be estimated by the goodness... | |
| Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 էջ
...purses of the flatterers. I shall say no more upon this disagreeable topic, but merely remark, that " the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link," and that consequently no pedigree is a sound one unless every link of descent is proved by evidence... | |
| 1862 - 400 էջ
...united, but it was made the very foundation of the union between the two countries. And let me say this, the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, and the strength of a beam is the strength of its weakest part, and every part of the United Church,... | |
| Church congress - 1862 - 320 էջ
...united, but it was made the very foundation of the union between the two countries. And let me say this, the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, and the strength of a beam is the strength of its weakest part, and every part of the United Church,... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 էջ
...nervous organism. In like manner, many physical facts, especially those of electricity and magnetism, and whatever involves the action of what are called Polar...Individual Objects by comparison, or are ascertaining their relations to each other, or to a class of cognate Objects, the results of the observation will... | |
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