 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...free expression of opinions, against which he was now contending. "There it was, in Italy," says he, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though 1 knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelaticai yoke,... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1865 - 666 pages
...among the Florentine celebrities, he afterward made this notable record : " There it was that I found the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." From Florence he proceed to Rome. Like a multitude of... | |
 | 1866 - 492 pages
...nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licences thought. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 pages
...gazed with reverend attention upon the mien of Italy's most famous son. "There it was," wrote Milton, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than as the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." the great Columbus of the heavens had made his... | |
 | Dudley Observatory - 1866 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...from this side the Alps ; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the... | |
 | 1866 - 298 pages
...from this side the Alps; but his fame had gone before him. There it was his fortune to visit Galileo, a prisoner to the Inquisition " for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." There Milton would have continued, or passed from thence into Greece, had not the... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...the astronomer not as a scientist but as a symbol of the suffering created by bigotry : There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And later, in Paradise lost, he speaks of the moon whose orb Through optic glass... | |
 | Giorgio de Santillana - 1955 - 365 pages
...wits, that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner of the Inquisition."11 His city had lost her freedom on the field of Gavinana a century before; now... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
