Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet, Wolsey, Sir E. Coke, Lord Somers, Caxton, Blake, Adam Smith, Niebuhr, Sir C. Wren, and Michael Angelo |
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... continued to be stationary , or even to decline , during a long series of ages , until little more than two cen- turies ago . Within this comparatively short period it has rapidly reached a degree of perfection so different from its ...
... continued to be stationary , or even to decline , during a long series of ages , until little more than two cen- turies ago . Within this comparatively short period it has rapidly reached a degree of perfection so different from its ...
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... continued to be a favourite recreation during the whole of his life . He was also passionately fond of painting , and at one time he wished to make it his profession : and his skill and judgment of pictures were highly esteemed by the ...
... continued to be a favourite recreation during the whole of his life . He was also passionately fond of painting , and at one time he wished to make it his profession : and his skill and judgment of pictures were highly esteemed by the ...
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... continued encomium upon Galileo ; insomuch that Kepler almost apologizes in the preface for what may seem his intemperate admi- ration of his friend . " Some might wish I had spoken in more moderate terms in praise of Galileo , in ...
... continued encomium upon Galileo ; insomuch that Kepler almost apologizes in the preface for what may seem his intemperate admi- ration of his friend . " Some might wish I had spoken in more moderate terms in praise of Galileo , in ...
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... continued in every part of his orbit to revolve regularly about him . Perhaps we cannot better wind up this account of the discovery of Jupi- ter's satellites , and of the intense interest Sherburne's Sphere of Manilius . London , 1675 ...
... continued in every part of his orbit to revolve regularly about him . Perhaps we cannot better wind up this account of the discovery of Jupi- ter's satellites , and of the intense interest Sherburne's Sphere of Manilius . London , 1675 ...
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... continued observation , he had satisfied himself that these solar spots were in actual contact with the surface of the sun , where they are continually appearing and disappearing ; that their figures were very irregular , some being ...
... continued observation , he had satisfied himself that these solar spots were in actual contact with the surface of the sun , where they are continually appearing and disappearing ; that their figures were very irregular , some being ...
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Page 10 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Page 34 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Page 39 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Page 32 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Page 22 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Page 20 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Page 38 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 23 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water: and though he had been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage, and bold and resolute achievements.
Page 5 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Page 26 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not. And then at last another said, that he would have "eyren...