Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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Side 2
... able to adduce the authority of Hume , who will be readily admitted as a competent judge of philosophical merit , where his prejudices cannot bias his decision . Dis- cussing the character of Bacon , he says , " If we consider the ...
... able to adduce the authority of Hume , who will be readily admitted as a competent judge of philosophical merit , where his prejudices cannot bias his decision . Dis- cussing the character of Bacon , he says , " If we consider the ...
Side 9
... able to quote chapter and verse in which Aristotle assures them that such is the fact . A temper of mind like this could not fail to produce ill will towards him who felt no scruples in exposing their wilful folly ; and the watchful ma ...
... able to quote chapter and verse in which Aristotle assures them that such is the fact . A temper of mind like this could not fail to produce ill will towards him who felt no scruples in exposing their wilful folly ; and the watchful ma ...
Side 28
... able to explain what the ratio between them is ; but one who has more understanding will know that if they were other than they are , thou- sands of admirable conclusions would have been lost , and that none of the other properties of ...
... able to explain what the ratio between them is ; but one who has more understanding will know that if they were other than they are , thou- sands of admirable conclusions would have been lost , and that none of the other properties of ...
Side 29
... able . 66 Galileo was also urged by the astro- logers to attribute some influence , ac- cording to their fantastic notions , to the satellites , and the account which he gives his friend Dini of his answer to one of this class is well ...
... able . 66 Galileo was also urged by the astro- logers to attribute some influence , ac- cording to their fantastic notions , to the satellites , and the account which he gives his friend Dini of his answer to one of this class is well ...
Side 33
... able dis- tinctly to trace on it the outlines of moun- tains and other inequalities , the summits of which reflected the rays of the sun before these reached the lower parts , and the sides of which , turned from his beams , lay buried ...
... able dis- tinctly to trace on it the outlines of moun- tains and other inequalities , the summits of which reflected the rays of the sun before these reached the lower parts , and the sides of which , turned from his beams , lay buried ...
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Side 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Side 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Side 8 - 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.
Side 13 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Side 32 - 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.
Side 29 - 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*.
Side 18 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase money 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.
Side 30 - ... 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.
Side 36 - 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.
Side 62 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...