 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 páginas
...Lost, where he speaks of the presumptuous men who will attempt to scan God's astronomical creation: "If they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle, and epicycle, orb In orbl" This piece of archangclic satire was intended for the lumbering old system of Ptolemy, which... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 páginas
...great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scann'd by them who ought Rather admire; or, if they list to try Conjecture,...contrive, To save appearances; how gird the sphere With eentric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Already by thy reasoning this... | |
 | 1852 - 874 páginas
...great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scann'd by them who ought ce on their fault, Which had no less prov'd caleulate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 páginas
...to be scann'd by them who ought Rather admire ; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabrick of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps...contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centrick and eccentrick scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 páginas
...to be scann'd by them who ought Rather admire ; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabrick of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps...contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centrick and eccentrick scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1853 - 428 páginas
...great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scann'd by then* who ought Rather admire ; or, if they list to try Conjecture,...laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter." All this may be very well, no doubt, for him by whom it was uttered, and for those who may have received... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 páginas
...If this be learning, most of all deceived. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but she sleeps 185 ' He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how huild, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances. Par. Lost, viii. 76. • What win I, if I gain the thing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 páginas
...If this be learning, most of all deceived. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but she sleeps 185 * He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how huild, unhuild, contrive, To save appearances. Par. Lost, viii. 76. ' What win I, if I gain the thing... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1854 - 376 páginas
...Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scann'd by them who ought Bather admire; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his...heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His langhter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter." All this may be very well, no doubt, for him by... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 páginas
...to pry into those secrets of the heavens which " the great Architect did wisely to conceal : " — " He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." The same complex system, when explained to Alphonso, king of Castile, gave rise to his noted remark,... | |
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Rather admire ; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens 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... 
