 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 oldal
...and exclaimed, — " The die is cast ! The book is written to be read, either now or by poS' terity, I care not which ! It may well wait a century for...God has waited six thousand years for an observer I" THE GAME OF LIFE. JG SAXE. 1. rilHERE'S a game much in fashion, — I think it's _L called Eucher,... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 oldal
...the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which : it may well wait for a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."* § 5. Mr. Mill combats the subjective tendency upon which this error is founded. He says : " According... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1878 - 736 oldal
...angry, I can l,ear it ! The die is cast ; the book is written ! to be read either now or by posterity, 1 care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since Cod has waited six thousand years for an observer •/'" — (Mitchell's "Orbs of Heaven." Routledge&... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 oldal
...labours. " The die is cast," he said; " the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity—I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader,...has waited six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome of the Copernican Astronomy, was condemned at Rome, and placed... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 oldal
...which, for seventeen years, had been the object of his incessant labours. "The die is cast," he said, " the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity,...which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God waited for six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome of the... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 oldal
...with a little more taste. Gil Bias. b. For evil news rides post, while good news baits. — Milton. e. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — Bre wtter. d. My Lord St. Alban said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1882 - 326 oldal
...seventeen years of hard work. When the third one was established, he said of the book containing it, " It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." 10. Galileo.1 — This famous Italian first used the telescope in astronomy. The first telescope was... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 oldal
...'their dust.' — Wurtt, ed. Dyce, Vol. vi. 154 KEPLER. — CAKEW. — BROWNE. JOHN KEPLER. 1571-1630. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Brcwster's Martyrs of Science, p. 197. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. He that loves a rosy check, Or a coral... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 oldal
...attain it. It is said of him that he published a book containing the last-named discovery, and said : " It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand for an observer." He invented the gauge, owing it is said, to the fact that he believed that the wine... | |
 | John Lord - 1884 - 524 oldal
...stolen from the Egyptians. If you forgive me, I rejoice. If you are angry, it is all the same to me. The die is cast; the book is written, — to be read...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." We do not see this sublime repose in the attitude of Galileo, — this falling back on his own conscious... | |
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I will indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession, that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians*, to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you... 
