1839, John K Townsend, Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c.

In this section, we shall describe a useful method for finding limits that is known as L’Hôpital’s Rule. Actually, there are several versions of L’Hôpital’s Rule and the formal statements of these will appear in the form of propositions or as a part of some remarks.

My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!

And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.