 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - Liczba stron: 506
...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 - Liczba stron: 654
...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 - 1812 - Liczba stron: 876
...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 - Liczba stron: 466
...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...tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight : And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. En geometre raffine Un pot... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Liczba stron: 456
...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...tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Liczba stron: 412
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater ; • For he, by geometric scale, Could...tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - Liczba stron: 390
...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...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... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - Liczba stron: 454
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, by geometric scale, •. , ««• Could take the...tangents straight, " If bread or butter wanted weight, «• " And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day, " The clock does strike, by Algebra." Now, though I... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Liczba stron: 416
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take...pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, It' bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - Liczba stron: 644
...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,... | |
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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... 
