| Thomas Brown - 1851 - 614 páginas
...fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end ? Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...and regulate the sun ; Go, soar with Plato to th' empvreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Go, teach eternal wisdom how to... | |
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...truth, in endless error hurled ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides ; Go, measure earth, weigh...Time, and regulate the Sun ; Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his... | |
| 1852 - 874 páginas
...truth, in endless error hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the work) ! Go, wondrous creature! exhilarating vapor bland About their spirits had play'd,...rose As from unrest ; and. each the other viewing, followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And... | |
| James Hamilton - 1852 - 393 páginas
...feeble ; or, rather, it is a strange mixture of strength and weakness :— " Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides ; Go, measure earth, weigh...Time, and regulate the sun ; Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how... | |
| David Thomas - 674 páginas
...: — " Go, wondrous creature ! Mount where science guides ; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and stem the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old time and regulate the sun. Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself and be a fool." It is the duty of every man... | |
| Byron Emerson Blair - 1974 - 482 páginas
...CO 80302. "Co wond'roug creature, mount where science guides. Go. measure earth, weigh air and slate the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run. Correct old time, and regulate the sun." Pope's Euay on Man The atomic time scale at the National Bureau of Standards, AT(NBS), depends upon... | |
| Clyde F. Crews - 1986 - 180 páginas
...wise and rudely great. . . . The glory, jest and riddle of the world. . . . Go, wondrous Creature; Mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...orbs to run. Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun. What had happened in the space of a generation to allow such a generous and highly well-received burst... | |
| Alan. J. Friedman, Carol C. Donley - 1989 - 244 páginas
...many non-scientific disciplines as if it were the one and only eternal truth. Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides Go, measure earth, weigh...run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun . . . Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!15 Pope's satire belongs to... | |
| Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - 552 páginas
...conditions in his Essay on Man as he sent Homo sapiens off in pursuit of his destiny. Go, wondrous creature, mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun. This Newtonian world, however, has been irrevocably superseded by relativity and quantum theories.... | |
| Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 páginas
...Man, 2.23—28, he uses both "giddy" and "mazy" to describe sohpsistic withdrawal ending in confusion: Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere, To the...perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod, And quitting sense call imitating God; As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And... | |
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