 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 páginas
...hutter wanted weight ;)| And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, hy Algehra. Beside, he was a shrewd Philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over: Whate'er the crahhed'st author hath,Il He understood h' implicit faith : 130 Whatever Skeptic could inquire for... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...;» For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale;' Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely...hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. HIS METAPHYSICS. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over ; Whale... | |
 | 1866 - 390 páginas
...; no 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 m, The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1890 - 342 páginas
...sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day us The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, i09 The Presbyterians coined a great number, such as Out-goings, Carryings-on, Nothingness, Workings-out,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1866 - 366 páginas
...sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, 108 The Presbyterians coined a great number, such as Out-goings, Carryings-on, Nothingness, Workings-out,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...Lint 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. Part i. Canto i. Line 125. Hudibras continued.] Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - 1869 - 280 páginas
...scale " Could take the size of pots of ale : " Resolve by sines and tangents straight " If bread and butter wanted weight ; " And wisely tell what hour o' th' day " The clock docs strike, by algebra." — (Hud. I. i. 121.) to the discoveries of astronomers, or chemists, or... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 páginas
...:? For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ;8 Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o7 th' day The clock does strike by algebra.9 Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1872 - 650 páginas
...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 doth strike by algebra." We are told that the " ago of chivalry is gone;" I am glad that with it the... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 páginas
...scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 5. Resolve by signs and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra. Besides, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st... | |
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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... 
