 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...  Hudibras - Page 21by Samuel Butler - 1819 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...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 - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...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 the size of...wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and... | |
 | James Gregory - Necessity (Philosophy) - 1819 - 454 pages
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, by geometric scale, •. , ««• Could take the...weight, «• " And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day, " The clock does strike, by Algebra." Now, though I mean not to affirm, that you have attained the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 416 pages
...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 the size of...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.... | |
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...wo.uld 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...o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra. N Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st... | |
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...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 532 pages
...no other ways. Itj mathematics he was greater .. Tlan Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : 120 • jp '' *&i For he, by geometric scale, \ Could take the size of pots of ale ; f' '^f '& Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely... | |
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