| Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 páginas
...the southern horizon, at noon. •• LETTER IX. PARALLAX AND REFRACTION. " Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides, Go measure earth, weigh...to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun."— Pope. I THINK you must have felt some astonishment, that astronomers are able to calculate the exact... | |
| Johann Georg Hamann - 1842 - 438 páginas
...this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and ruJely great .... Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair .... Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings,... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...truth, in endless error hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature! hee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary...mixture was not held a stain : Oft in glimmering bowers followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...truth, in endless error hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, wondrous creature ! wildly-devious morning lh' empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his... | |
| William Gresley - 1843 - 316 páginas
...breaking his neck in getting a jackdaw's nest." CHAPTER X. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Go, wondrous creature, mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orhs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun : * * * • Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule,—... | |
| Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 410 páginas
...smoothness, which impress them upon the memory ; like the venomous verses of * " Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy rounds his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God." — Eatay on Man, ii. 23. t " Two... | |
| Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 712 páginas
...awake A weaker may surprise, a stronger take? «*) Epist. H. Vs. 23. Go, soar with Plato to th'empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy rounds his followers trod , And quitting sense call imitating god. 66) Epist. II. Vs. 53. Two principles... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 páginas
...truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; 20 Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old time, and regulate the sun ; Go, soar with... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 páginas
...truth, in endle.se error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; 20 Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old time, and regulate the sun ; j/ Go, soar with... | |
| Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1845 - 68 páginas
...HISTORY OF CKEATIONs" ITS ARGUMENT EXAMINED AND EXPOSED. BT SR BOSANQUET, ESQ. ' Go, wond'rous creature! mount where science guides ; Go, measure earth, weigh...air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in their orbs to run ; Correct old time, and regulate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to ruleThen... | |
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