 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 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." Hyperbole is a very difficult figure to manage as the expression of passion, it touches always so nearly... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 Seiten
...why, And tell what rules he did it by. 2. He, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale, And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra. 3. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning, and his wit. 'T was Presbyterian, true blue;... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 276 Seiten
...size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight, 125 And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does...gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, 130 He understood b' implicit faith : Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For ev'ry why he had a wherefore... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 Seiten
...size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight, ,25 And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does...and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ,30 He understood b' implicit faith :' Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For ev'jry why he had a... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 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. Hallam says of Hudibras: " It was incomparably more popular than Paradise Lost; no poem in our language... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 204 Seiten
...geometric scale, Could tell the size of pots of ale ; Sir Hudibras. 71 Resolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by algebra. Besides, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - 1883 - 154 Seiten
...tangents, straight If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour of day The clock doth strike by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood by implicit faith ;... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1885 - 300 Seiten
...: iFor 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...Algebra. . £/ Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, -V And had read ev'ry text, and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b'... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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. 75 75, 76. he conld . . . words. The Presbyterians coined a great number, such as out-goings, carryings-on,... | |
 | 1888 - 636 Seiten
...detected any symptoms whatever of this bite noire of the water not following the piston fast enough. " Wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra." Another letter by the same writer (27718) suggests the use of valves fore and aft. But let me refer... | |
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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... 
