 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...  Chats about Books: Poets and Novelists - Strana 344autor/autoři: Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1883 - 360 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 str.
...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, by Algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 str.
...phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahc or Erra Pater 4; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock docs strike,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 str.
...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...butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrew'd philosopher* And had read ev'ry^text... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 str.
...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...; Resolve by sines and tangents straight If bread or butter wanted weight : And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. En... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 str.
...He 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...bread and butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hoyr o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra, Beside, he was a shrewM philosopher, And had read... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 str.
...would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater ; • For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 str.
...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...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight ; If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 str.
...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 take the size of...pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, It' bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - 454 str.
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, by geometric scale, •. , ««• Could take the...Resolve by sines, and tangents straight, " If bread or butter wanted weight, «• " And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day, " The clock does strike, by... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 542 str.
...wo.uld 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...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
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