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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... learned the art of printing during his stay in the Low Countries 23 Reeds originally used , in place of quills , for making pens ib . by many eastern nations were in use for writing as late as the 8th century , and are still employed ...
... learned the art of printing during his stay in the Low Countries 23 Reeds originally used , in place of quills , for making pens ib . by many eastern nations were in use for writing as late as the 8th century , and are still employed ...
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... learned on the subject ; and returning to Padua , he immediately applied him- self to consider the means by which such an effect could be produced . Fuccarius , in an abusive letter which he wrote on the subject , asserts that one of ...
... learned on the subject ; and returning to Padua , he immediately applied him- self to consider the means by which such an effect could be produced . Fuccarius , in an abusive letter which he wrote on the subject , asserts that one of ...
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... learned from the habits of constant correspondence with each other , and alternate offices of counsel and assist- ance . - Let the first fruits of wisdom be love ; and so let the Lynceans love each other as if united by the strictest ...
... learned from the habits of constant correspondence with each other , and alternate offices of counsel and assist- ance . - Let the first fruits of wisdom be love ; and so let the Lynceans love each other as if united by the strictest ...
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... learned editors of what is commonly called the Jesuit's edi- tion of Newton's " Principia " were of opinion , that in adopting the Copernican system they should transgress a mandate emanating from any thing short of infal- lible wisdom ...
... learned editors of what is commonly called the Jesuit's edi- tion of Newton's " Principia " were of opinion , that in adopting the Copernican system they should transgress a mandate emanating from any thing short of infal- lible wisdom ...
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... learned from the account which Pieroni sent to Galileo of his endeavours to print them in Germany . He first took the manu- script to Vienna , but found that every book printed there must receive the ap- probation of the Jesuits ; and ...
... learned from the account which Pieroni sent to Galileo of his endeavours to print them in Germany . He first took the manu- script to Vienna , but found that every book printed there must receive the ap- probation of the Jesuits ; and ...
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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...