 | Samuel Butler - 1774 - 254 pages
...pebble-ftones When he harangu'd, but known his phra(e, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematies he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric feale Could take the fize of pots of ale ; Refolve by fines and tangents, flraight, If bread or butter... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe13 or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Conld take the size of pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or bntter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what honr o' th' day The clock does strike,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahc or Erra Pater 4; ilius Italicus, though a worse writer, may more justly...admitted. I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock docs strike, by algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pages
...would 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 and butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 pages
...wit of 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...pebble-stones When he harangued, but known his phrase, In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Fjra Pater«; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the...; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater ; • For he, by geometric scale, Could...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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pages
...known his phrase, He 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...size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock does strike,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 pages
...Taylor the Water Poet makes mention, in the preface to his Cast over the Heater, WorKi, p. 156. and in 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 125 The clock does... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - 454 pages
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, 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... | |
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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... 
