 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pagina’s
...MATHJEMATICKS he was greater Than > TYCHO BRAHE or EKBA PATER: ISO For he, by geometrick scale, Łould take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents, straight If bread or butter wanted weighty And wisely tell what hour o' th" day , 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 pagina’s
...ha re us 'd no other way*. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater * ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait. If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock does strike,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 pagina’s
...the following passage is completely transfused, perhaps even heightened in the translation : For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of...ale; Resolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight: And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. En... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pagina’s
...have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: 120 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...bread and butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hoyr o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra, Beside, he was a shrewM philosopher, And had read... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pagina’s
...would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe-j- or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 pagina’s
...would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, It' bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 pagina’s
...would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe 13 or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' the' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 542 pagina’s
...have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : 120 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pagina’s
...hat and wig will soon be here, For they're upon the road." We subjoin a few more examples: " For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...ale; Resolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o'th day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater; For he, ures sway, Thus ˊ 8 [ "I 1824 Published b or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside,... | |
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By geometric scale ' Could take the size of pots of ale : ' Resolve by sines and tangents straight ' If bread and butter wanted weight; ' And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 
