 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 Essays - Page 199by Francis Bacon - 1908 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...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 centrick and eccentrick scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...systems; v*fe, ie remote from the truth, and difterent from tiieh uther. BooK VIII.] PARADISE LOST. 229 " To save appearances ; — how gird the sphere " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, " Cvcle and epicycle, orb in orb : 1 " Alreadv by thy reasoning this I guess,* 85 " Who art to lead... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 512 pages
...thing. North. We recommend all manner of persons to dismiss from their minds all considerations of sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle ; orb in orb ; And be warned by Adam's advice and our own to know, That which before them on the table lies, 1 Is... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1854 - 502 pages
...thing. North. We recommend all manner of persons to dismiss from their minds all considerations of With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle; orb in orb; sphere, And be warned by Adam's advice and our own to know, That which before them on the table lies,... | |
 | Leonard Marsh - Religion - 1854 - 206 pages
...terrestrial results, at various intervals ; in fact it consists of these shorter circumvolutions : " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." witness, as the celestial orbs revolve, and come to their various apocatastatic positions,the constant... | |
 | Francis Bowen - History - 1855 - 512 pages
...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...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." The same complex system, when explained to Alphonso, king of Castile, gave rise to his noted remark,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 ;...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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 eccentric1 scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who... | |
 | Evening recreations, John Hampden Gurney - 1856 - 318 pages
...its object, and fresh joints and rods had to be imagined, till, as Milton says, the sphere was — " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb;" and a result arrived at, so complicated, and tangled, and unlike the noble simplicity of the Creator's... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...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...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Atready by thy reasoning this I guess, T. 11. 34 « concentriques et excentriques, de cycles et d'épicycles,... | |
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