Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet, Wolsey, Sir E. Coke, Lord Somers, Caxton, Blake, Adam Smith, Niebuhr, Sir C. Wren, and Michael AngeloR. Baldwin, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... complete verification of his most daring speculations , yet there was enough , ab- stractedly taken , in the wild freedom of his remarks , to attract a mind like Gali- leo's ; and it is with more satisfaction that we refer the formation ...
... complete verification of his most daring speculations , yet there was enough , ab- stractedly taken , in the wild freedom of his remarks , to attract a mind like Gali- leo's ; and it is with more satisfaction that we refer the formation ...
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... complete the cycle of the seven planet Moon . Saturn . centric and epicy- > represent with er varying phe- Aristotle had ice in this , as al philosophy , m to prevail nowledge of er from his d by some Of these ' aces now in th Mercury ...
... complete the cycle of the seven planet Moon . Saturn . centric and epicy- > represent with er varying phe- Aristotle had ice in this , as al philosophy , m to prevail nowledge of er from his d by some Of these ' aces now in th Mercury ...
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... complete ignorance of his subject . The consequence of this public expo- sure , and of the report of the famous Fra Paolo Sarpi , to whom the matter had been referred , was a formal prohi- bition by the university of Capra's pub ...
... complete ignorance of his subject . The consequence of this public expo- sure , and of the report of the famous Fra Paolo Sarpi , to whom the matter had been referred , was a formal prohi- bition by the university of Capra's pub ...
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... complete description of a telescope , which , however , is professed merely to be an improvement on spectacles , and if the author's intention had been to interpolate an afterwritten account , in order to secure to himself the ...
... complete description of a telescope , which , however , is professed merely to be an improvement on spectacles , and if the author's intention had been to interpolate an afterwritten account , in order to secure to himself the ...
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... complete leisure ; so that I can com- plete my Treatises on Mechanics , on the Constitution of the Universe , and on Natural and Violent Local Motion , of which I have demonstrated geo- metrically many new and admirable phenomena . I ...
... complete leisure ; so that I can com- plete my Treatises on Mechanics , on the Constitution of the Universe , and on Natural and Violent Local Motion , of which I have demonstrated geo- metrically many new and admirable phenomena . I ...
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Página 10 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 34 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Página 39 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Página 32 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 22 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Página 20 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Página 38 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 23 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water: and though he had been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage, and bold and resolute achievements.
Página 5 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Página 26 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not. And then at last another said, that he would have "eyren...