 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Note io3, page 58, col. 2. There, untcen. Hilton went to Italy in i638. «There it was,» says Ыг, - that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition.« « Old and blind, he migbt have said. Galileo, by his own account, berame blind in December, 1637.... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Medicean Stars, in honour of his patron, Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany. " It was in Florence (says Milton) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Monsieur Blanchard and Dr. JefTeries navigate, in an air balloon, the Straits of Dover, from off the... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Biography & Autobiography - 1833 - 574 pages
...at his door, brought him into the assembly almost by the hand. But Milton had already at Florence " found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a...the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought*;" and a confirmed abhorrence of the Romish system, as that of all others which had laid the heaviest... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...this work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says: " There it was, [Italy] that I found and visited the famous GALILEO, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...work that he introduces Galileo, and his hard and cruel fate. He says : " There it was, [Italy] that 1 found and visited the, famous GALILEO, grown old a...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licencers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this...fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famons Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning1 amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing1 had been there written no«1 these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that... | |
 | George Washington Blagden - Massachusetts - 1835 - 42 pages
...other. Galileo declared it, and he was found and visited by a puritan, when grown old, and a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican friars thought. He too has triumphed proportionally now, The reformers never would have reformed, had... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this...it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, (<6) grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican inquisitors thought Liberty is the nurse of all great wits ; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened... | |
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I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped... 
