 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Line 81. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Part i. Canto L Lint 89. For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Part i. Canto i. Line 121. And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...mouth with pebble stones When he harangu'd, but known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or...take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tagents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day. The clock... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - 1869 - 280 pages
...Bacon, Nov. Org. I. 8; cf. ib. 18. The man of science often appears to (he vulgar as a Hudibras, who " 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 " The clock docs... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe,6 or Erra Pater :? For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ;8 Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1872 - 650 pages
...tides presage, And even the story ran, that he could gauge;" or again in Butler's School-master: " In mathematics he was greater, Than Tycho Brahe, or...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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...and piebald languages ; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian, heretofore, on satin. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or...geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; 5. Resolve by signs and tangents straight, If bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...mouth with pebble-stones When he harangued, but known his phrase, He would have used no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or...size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o" the day The clock does strike,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...three laborers of Band, Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once. HIS MATHEMATICS. In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe ' or...geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ;' Resolved by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 438 pages
...middle of next week. MARGERY. — Sur, an' ye pleease, gud moorning te ye." [Exit. WILLIAM EMERSON. "In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or...Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the eize of pots of ale ; Resolve, by signs and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And... | |
 | Lal Behari Day - 1874 - 410 pages
...a diviner. He was so skilful in the manipulation of figures that it might have been said of him — In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or...he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots and ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell... | |
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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... 
