"Jevons" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these rules, and the detail of the traditional formal logic, in any elementary text-book, such as, e. g., Jevons: ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry
... of the Aryan Peoples; Schrader and Jevons (Griffin, 1890). This is the English of Schrader's Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte. Compare Dr. E. Meyer's History of Antiquity, vol. i. book vi. Dr. Isaac Taylor's Origin of the Aryans gives a compendious account of the question, concluding ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies
... match with him as we went back to town. It must have been then that he began to tell me about himself: that his name was James Tasker Jevons; that he lived, or hoped to live, by going about the country and reporting the big ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... "Magic" in Jevons, "Comparative Religion". In his article "Magic (Egyptian)," in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (p. 266), Dr. Alan Gardiner makes the following statement: "The mystical potency attaching to certain numbers doubtless originated in associations of thought ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith |
