 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...  Poetical Works: With the Life of the Author - Página 23de Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | James Augustus St. John - 1842 - 446 páginas
...Hudibras, notwithstanding that — " In mathematies he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale ; Discern by sines and tangents strait If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1843 - 574 páginas
...Hudibras, notwithstanding that — "In mathematics he was greater Than Tyclio Brnlie, or Erra Pater; For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale, Discern by sines and tangents strait If bread and butter wanted weight, And wisely tell what hour o'... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...Like fustian, heretofore, on satin. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Errs Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by signs and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight, And wisely tell what hoar o' th' day... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 páginas
...that ridicule is not argument. And doubtless he would readily perceive, that the fact, that Hudibras "by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by signs and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight," does not detract from the dignity... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1844 - 1382 páginas
...Hudibras, notwithstanding that — " In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale ; Discern by sines and tangents strait If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour... | |
 | Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 páginas
...everything, from an eel to an earldom, or, as Hudibras hath it, " He by geometric scale Could tell the size of pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight. His ventures, therefore, generally speaking, were based on the good grounds... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 682 páginas
...everything, from an eel to an earldom, or, as Hudibras hath it, " He by geometric scale Could tell the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight." His ventures, therefore, generally speaking, were based on the good grounds... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 696 páginas
...everything, from an eel to an earldom, or, as Hudibras hath it, " He by geometric scale Could tell the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight. If bread and butter wanted weight." His ventures, therefore, generally speaking, were based on the good grounds... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell,...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. For his religion, it was fit 5 To match his learning and his wit : 'T was presbyterian true hlue ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 páginas
...of languages at once.3 • * * * In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ;* i For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, Jf bread or butter wanted weight ,• And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day The clock does... | |
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