Lives of Eminent PersonsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... present easy to procure - his Dialogue on ancient and modern music - exhibits proofs , not only of a thorough acquaintance with his subject , but of a sound and vigorous understanding applied to other topics incidentally discussed ...
... present easy to procure - his Dialogue on ancient and modern music - exhibits proofs , not only of a thorough acquaintance with his subject , but of a sound and vigorous understanding applied to other topics incidentally discussed ...
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... present , postpone the con- sideration of the invention of pendulum clocks , and the examination of the dif- ferent claims to the honour of their first construction . At the time of which we are speaking , Galileo was entirely ignorant ...
... present , postpone the con- sideration of the invention of pendulum clocks , and the examination of the dif- ferent claims to the honour of their first construction . At the time of which we are speaking , Galileo was entirely ignorant ...
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... present is not a fit opportunity to enter into many details respecting it ; these will find their proper place in the History of Astronomy : but a brief sketch of its leading principles is necessary to render what follows in- telligible ...
... present is not a fit opportunity to enter into many details respecting it ; these will find their proper place in the History of Astronomy : but a brief sketch of its leading principles is necessary to render what follows in- telligible ...
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... present the empirical law which includes the distances of all the planets from the sun ( roughly taken ) in one algebraical formula . The observations of Kepler's day were scarcely accurate enough to prove that the relations which he ...
... present the empirical law which includes the distances of all the planets from the sun ( roughly taken ) in one algebraical formula . The observations of Kepler's day were scarcely accurate enough to prove that the relations which he ...
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... present age to be still immeasurably inferior to him in science . 64 Thomas Digges , in the preface to his Pantometria , ( published in 1591 ) de- clares , My father , by his continuall painfull practises , assisted with de ...
... present age to be still immeasurably inferior to him in science . 64 Thomas Digges , in the preface to his Pantometria , ( published in 1591 ) de- clares , My father , by his continuall painfull practises , assisted with de ...
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Página 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 14 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 35 - 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 33 - ... 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 23 - 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 11 - 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 39 - 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 22 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out, by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Página 6 - 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 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.