 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
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...Line Si. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Part i. Canto i. Line 89. For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Part i. Canto i. Line 121. And wisely tell what hour o" th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 páginas
...Latin, like fustian heretofore on satin.1 In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahc or Erra Pater : For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every... | |
 | A lounger in the courts - 1877 - 68 páginas
...whom Hudibras, in Canto I., says, — " In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he by Geometric scale, Could take the size of...tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight." In arguing a case, he never overlays it with a mass of verbiage ; he speaks to the point, and does... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 páginas
...would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe,5 or Erra Pater ;6 120 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...phrase, He would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. 75, 76. he could . . . viunls. The Presbyterians coined a great number, such as out-goings, carryings-on,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 páginas
...mouth, but out there flew a trope ; In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots...hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra." Hyperbole is a very difficult figure to manage as the expression of passion, it touches always so nearly... | |
 | Edward Lance Tarbuck - 1880 - 262 páginas
...surveyors, likened by a distinguished Vice Chancellor to the mathematical " Sir Hudibras " ; — " For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale." provisional injunction be granted, for any detrimental, vexatious or merely unpleasant thing ; as noise... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to shew why, And tell what rules he did it by. 2. He, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale, And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra. 3. For his religion, it was... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 páginas
...other ways. CANTO i.] HUDIBRAS. In mathematics he was greater ,20 Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight, ,25 And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...flattery ! MATHEMATICS. Byron, DJ xil. 32. In mathematies he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Butler, Hud. 1, l. 119. MAY. For thee, sweet month, the groves green liv'ries wear, If not the first,... | |
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