 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...leash of languages at once.3 * * * * In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ;4 For 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, what hour o' th' day The clock does strike,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...phrase. He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematies he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1852 - 520 páginas
...Mathematics he was greater Than Tyeho Brahe, or Erra Peter :§ 126 For he, by geometric scale, Conld take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or bntter wanted weight ;|| And wisely tell what honr o' in' day 125 The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 páginas
...Like fustian, heretofore, on satin. 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 signs and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight, And wisely tell what hour o' th' day... | |
 | 1852 - 838 páginas
...pericranium by far 1 CHAPTER V. 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 lines and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour of the day... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 páginas
...' William Lilly, the famous astrologer of those times. Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, 123 If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell...Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith ;... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 páginas
...would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe,5 or Erra Pater ;a 120 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 1 ' Like fustian heretofore on satin : ' a fashion, from the manner of expression, probably not then... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...Hudibras. In mathematies he was greater Than Tyeho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometrie seale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines...weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The eloek does strike, by algebra. Butler's Hudibras. We grant, although he had mueh wit, H' was very shy... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...mathematies he was greater Than Tyeho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometrie seale, Could lake the size of pots of ale ¡ Resolve, by sines and tangents,...wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The eloek does strike, by algebra. Butler's Hudibras. We grant, although he had mueh wit, II' was very... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...languages at once. HIS MATHEMATICS. In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe' or F.rra Pater ;* For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 3 Resolved by sines and tangents straight I f bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what... | |
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