 | Samuel Butler - 1856 - 522 pagina’s
...us'd no other ways.t In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater :§ ijo 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.... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pagina’s
...fustian, heretofore, on satin. Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater; In mathematics he was greater For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve by signs and tangents straight, And wisely tell what hour o' th' day If bread and butter wanted weight,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 380 pagina’s
...modern systems of education: " In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe 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' day The clock does strike, by algebra."... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pagina’s
...would have used no other ways. 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 straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 pagina’s
...Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.' Such were his rhetorical acquirements in mathematics he— ' by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale! Resolve, by sines and tangents strait, If bread and butter wanted weight.' But it was as a theologian that this model Puritan was... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pagina’s
...Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.' Such were his rhetorical acquirements in mathematics he— •by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale! Resolve, by sines and tangents strait, If bread and butter wanted weight.' But it was as a theologian that this model Puritan was... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 pagina’s
...us'd no other ways.t In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater :§ ISO 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.... | |
 | 1866 - 390 pagina’s
...would have us'd no other ways. 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 straight If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1866 - 366 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...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,... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pagina’s
...or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; 5. Resolve by signs and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted...tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra. Besides, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over; Whate'er the... | |
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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 
