...Life by Jortin. I. 358. (n.) 8w>. 5 / have sat among their lerned men, &c.] See ILLUSTRATION, M. • There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, n prisner to the Inquisition — ] Mr. Hayley, from the interest Grotius appears to have taken in the...

...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought : that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...brought ; that this was it which had dampt the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had there been written now these many years but flattery and fustian....Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." •" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the...

...futuri. That was the house, ' where,' says Milton (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.'* Great Heavens! what...

...Jewel!) II Giojello. P. 152, 1. 5. There, unseen, Milton went to Italy in 1638. " There it was," says he, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." "Old and blind," he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637. Milton,...

...they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into winch learning amongst them was brought : that this was...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...seasonably something of the noble courage of the brave old Syracusan ! Would that, when summoned before the Inquisition "for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," — instead of making an ignominious and humiliating abjuration, he might have been seen boldly asserting...

...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought: that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition- into which learning amongst them was brought; that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...celebrated Galileo. " There it was," he says, speaking of Italy in his speech for unlicensed printing, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought f." It is probable that the attention of our immortal countryman had been peculiarly directed to this...