Algebra (Cohn, P M (Paul Moritz)//Algebra 2nd Edition)

By Paul M. Cohn

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...bank of the flood oer which there is no return. 426--439. The inhabitants of the first regions of hell. Straightway cries are heard, and wailing loud, and the spirits of infants weeping in the entrance of the door, whom, without sharing the sweets of life, and torn from the breast, the day of doom swept away, and plunged into untimely death. Next to these are they that were condemned to die on a false charge: and these abodes are by no means assigned without allotment, without a judge; Minos rules the scrutiny, and shakes the urn; he convokes the conclave of the silent dead, and learns their lives, and the charges brought against them. The regions that come next in order are filled by a sad company, who, without guilt, have been the authors of their own death by violence, and sick of the light of day have flung away their lives. How ready they would be now, to endure beneath the height of the sky both penury and hard struggles The law of Heaven forbids, and the unlovely marsh with its joyless flood binds them in, and Styx hems them round with nine circles of its stream. 440--476. The Mourning Fields. jEneas sees Dido, and tries in vain to soothe her. Not far from hence the Mourning Fields are shewn, spreading on every side; such is the name by which they call them. Here they whom cruel love has wasted away with pining pain, are concealed in secluded paths, and covered all round by a myrtle grove; not even in death do their woes desert them. In these regions he descries Phaedra, and Procris, and Eri-phyle full of grief, pointing to the wounds dealt by her cruel son, and Evadne, and Pasiphae; in company with them Laodamia goes along, and Caeneus, once a youth, a woman now, and again transformed by fate into her original shape. Among them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471928402
• ISBN13: 9780471928409
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"