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" There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. "
Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent ... - Page 132
by Elegant extracts - 1812
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licence* sers thought. And though I knew that England then was groanrhg loudest under the prelatical...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...
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The Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science

John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...this kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sal among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e ed. 1780, p. 810. Milton wae at that time twenty-nine years old.] who hath...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 23

Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." (Prose Works, vol....
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits, — that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took...
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A history of wonderful inventions

History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...Italy, and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...countries where this kind of inquisition tryannises There [Florence] It wo a that I found and viv.ted the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." One editorial note to this is :— " This passage might have been expected to decide the question whether...
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The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers ..., Volume 1

Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits — that nothing had been there written now trftjse many years but flattery and fustian. There it was...inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest...
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The Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science

John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...this kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopagitica, Hollis's ed. 1780, p. 310. Milton was at that time twenty-nine years old.] Galileo's...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that 1 found and visited the famous (îalileo, nd Lincoln license» thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,...
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