 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
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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.' knew there were no such things ; and, in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of subtile... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 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... | |
 | 1873 - 442 páginas
...chronologers and those of the ancient astronomers, as Mikon has drawn them, who " Gird the sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." We do not state these things in order to depreciate the value of chronological studies, nor in order... | |
 | James Tift Champlin - 1874 - 310 páginas
...as the fruit of the perverse ingenuity of man, which disfigured rather thau explained nature:— " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb*" temporary with Cicero, who was himself, in the main, an Academician, though with strong eclectic tendencies... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 páginas
...to, as each new set of appearances presented themselves for explanation. 82—84. " gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb." The fundamental notion of the ancient astronomers was that all the motions of the heavenly bodies were... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...her stay. Booh viii. Line 43. And, touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew. Booh viii. Line 47. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Booh viii. Line 83. To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. Booh viii.... | |
 | John James Lias - 1875 - 312 páginas
...John's Gospel should contain a most emphatic negation of all To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." Milton,' Paradise Lost,' book viii. I. 78-84. 1 See EeTille, Strauss, Schenkel, in reference to this.... | |
 | John James Lias - 1875 - 316 páginas
...John's Gospel should contain a most emphatic negation of all To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." Hilton, ' Paradise Lost,' book viii. 1. 78-84. 1 See ReTille, Strauss, Schenkel, in reference to this.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...her stay. Book viii. Line 43. And, touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier 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.... | |
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