Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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Side ix
... Court and at Westminster Hall Appointed to the office of attorney - general ib . Elected speaker of the House of Commons in 1592 He becomes very rich , and marries , in suc- ib . cession , two ladies of large property Is prosecuted , in ...
... Court and at Westminster Hall Appointed to the office of attorney - general ib . Elected speaker of the House of Commons in 1592 He becomes very rich , and marries , in suc- ib . cession , two ladies of large property Is prosecuted , in ...
Side x
... courts of law 4 stration on the accession of Queen Anne Trial of the seven bishops ib . Returned to the first parliament of Wil- Debates on the bill against occasional conformity 22 ib . ib . liam III . for Worcester 5 He is made ...
... courts of law 4 stration on the accession of Queen Anne Trial of the seven bishops ib . Returned to the first parliament of Wil- Debates on the bill against occasional conformity 22 ib . ib . liam III . for Worcester 5 He is made ...
Side 23
... court of our James the first , where William Borelli ( not the author above Lettère d'Uomini illustri Venezia , 1744 . Borelli . De vero Telescopii inventore , 1655 . mentioned ) saw it many years after- wards , when GALILEO . 23.
... court of our James the first , where William Borelli ( not the author above Lettère d'Uomini illustri Venezia , 1744 . Borelli . De vero Telescopii inventore , 1655 . mentioned ) saw it many years after- wards , when GALILEO . 23.
Side 26
... court of France , will serve to show how highly the honour of giving a name to these new planets was at that time appreciated , and also how much was expected from Galileo's first success in examining the heavens . " The second De ...
... court of France , will serve to show how highly the honour of giving a name to these new planets was at that time appreciated , and also how much was expected from Galileo's first success in examining the heavens . " The second De ...
Side 30
... Court of Vienna . In the latter reply we find it men- tioned , that Galileo was also using his telescope for the examination of insects , writer's own observation . A farmer in Cambridge- more unpretending station , once came under the ...
... Court of Vienna . In the latter reply we find it men- tioned , that Galileo was also using his telescope for the examination of insects , writer's own observation . A farmer in Cambridge- more unpretending station , once came under the ...
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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...