Even if it should be allowed that the series has no first term, but has originated ab aeterno, it must always at each instant have a last term; the series as a whole can not be infinite.
As every number, although immeasurably and inconceivably great, is impossible unless unity is given as its basis, so every series, being itself a number, is impossible unless a first term is given as its commencement.
As every number, although immeasurably and inconceivably great, is impossible without unity as its basis, so every series, being itself a number, is impossible unless a first term is given as its commencement.
Few will now claim that this is the natural and adequate cosmical conception; but, even under this mode of conception, we can not but feel that a development without a beginning of the process, a series without a first term, is impossible.
Ever since the days of the Duke of Dorset's first term of office Dublin had been progressing.
Fenianism was most active during his first term, and Abercorn was compelled to adopt similar methods in dealing with the trouble as had been part of the Liberal administration of his predecessor.
I'm a stranger; this is my first term; on which Lowton began to point out to him the notabilities in the Hall.
In my first term I fell into the doctor's hands, and never escaped from them so long as I was an undergraduate.
Another reminiscence, and of a very different kind, belongs to my first Term.
The prison at Sing Sing, during the nine months I was there on my first term, was very crowded, and there was not enough work to go round; and I was absolutely idle most of the time.
I also enjoyed Gaboriau and Du Boisgobey, for they are very sensational; but that was during my first term in stir.
This system is worked in all the State prisons in New York, and during my first term, or any of the other terms for that matter, I had no difficulty in supplying my growing need for opium.
As every number, although immeasurably and inconceivably great, is impossible unless unity is given as its basis, so every series, being itself a number, is impossible unless a first term is given as a commencement.
But these patriotic men, one of whom was born during the Revolutionary war and the other during the first term of Washington's Presidency, maintained their judicial positions and were unshaken in their loyalty to the Union.
Mr. Sumner's first termin the Senate began just as the last term of Colonel Benton closed.
On the first day of term, it may be remembered he had wrenched away the wooden bar which bisected the window-frame, thus rendering exit and entrance almost as simple as they had been for Wyatt during Mike's first term at Wrykyn.
I bet he gets into the first eleven his first term.
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