 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...' William Lilly, the famous astrologer of those times. Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, 123 If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell...Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith ;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 Seiten
...Pater ; For he by geometrie seale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The eloek does strike, by algebra. Butler's Hudibras. We grant, although he had mueh wit, H' was very shy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 3 Resolved by sines and tangents straight I f bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had react every text and gloss over; Wlinte'cr... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...120 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Sesolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...sine of pots of ale ;3 Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; Anil wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whate'er... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...Pater;* For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; ' Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whate'er... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1859 - 624 Seiten
...and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; ' And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was...text and gloss over : Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,2 He understood b' implicit faith : 1 30 "Whatever Sceptic could inquire for ; For every WHY he... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...j2 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ;3 Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely...hour o' th? day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over; Whate'er... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 376 Seiten
...Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra." Another prerequisite of wisdom is intellectual humility. Solomon says, " Before honor is humility ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...For lie, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 3 Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over; Whate'er... | |
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In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does... 
