 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 דפים
...ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe13 or Erra Pater; 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' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 דפים
...phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahc 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 docs strike,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1809 - 448 דפים
...scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, hy sines and tangents, straight, If hread or hutter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, hy algehra. Beside, he was a shrewd Philosopher, And had read ev'ry^text and gloss over : Whale'er... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 דפים
...would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : 120 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 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 דפים
...wit of the following passage is completely transfused, perhaps even heightened in the translation : For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots...or butter wanted weight : And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. En geometre raffine Un pot de bierre il cut jaugé ; Par... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - 454 דפים
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, by geometric scale, •. , ««• Could take the...o' th' day, " The clock does strike, by Algebra." Now, though I mean not to affirm, that you have attained the same high eminence with this gentleman,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 דפים
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe-j- or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could...butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 דפים
...Taylor the Water Poet makes mention, in the preface to his Cast over the Heater, WorKi, p. 156. and in For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 דפים
...pebble-stones When he harangued, but known his phrase, In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Fjra Pater«; 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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 דפים
...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hoyr o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra, Beside, he was a shrewM philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He... | |
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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 strike,... 
