 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...  Lives of Eminent Persons - Página 14por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...her stay. Book viii. Line 43. And, touch'd by her fair tendance, glacllier grew. Book viii. Line 47. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Book viii. Line 83. To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. Book viii.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 páginas
...to model heaven And calculate the stars, how will they wield The mighty power ! how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb 1' For it must be very doubtful if the saying of Heraclitus, brought forward by Hurd, who calls it... | |
 | Selim Hobart Peabody - 1869 - 388 páginas
...opinion was generally adopted by philosophers, and Milton refers to it when he speaks of the heavens as "With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." Fig. 83. The figure shows the supposed path of Mars from 1708 to 1723. The earth is supposed to be... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 páginas
...puzzle, and the scheme of the universe an enigma, as profound and dark as the riddle of the Sphinx. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. The beautiful heavens racked the brain of man, and continually solicited his exertions to bring order... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 600 páginas
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 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 páginas
...they 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 ;" yet every progress of thought "making confusion worse confounded." Indian idolatry has touched bottom.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 páginas
...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." See also Nichol, Solar System, p. 7 : " Nothing in later times ought to obscure the glory of Hipparchus,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1871 - 760 páginas
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 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 páginas
...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. Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - 1873 - 154 páginas
...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 Already by thy reasoning this I guess Who art to lead thy offspring and supposes! That bodies bright... | |
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