 | Plutarchus - 1810 - 746 pages
...machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanies, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid; and placed his whole delight... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 352 pages
...machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing....necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising solely from truth and demonstration. If mechanical knowledge indeed be valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 314 pages
...rouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For be considered all attention to mechanics, and ev«ry art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid ; and placed bis whole delight in those intellectual speculations which, without any relation to the necessities... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 524 pages
...machines, he gained the reputation of a man of divine, rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing....excellence, arising from truth and demonstration only." Surely nothing can be more preposterous than to entertain an opinion that those arts, which minister... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave behind him any account of them in writing. For he considered...whole delight in those intellectual speculations, whiqh, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 pages
...machines, he gained the reputation of a person endowed almost with divine knowledge ; yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing...considered all attention to mechanics, and every art which ministers merely to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine, rather than human knowlcd¿e, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave • any account of them in writing; for he considered all attention to mechanic3, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1836 - 478 pages
...accommodation. But according to his admirer, Plutarch, he disdained all such palpable problems, considering every art that ministers to common uses as mean and sordid, and placing his whole delight in those intellectual speculations which, without any reference to the necessities... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
...he acquired the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing,...which, without any relation to the necessities of life, hare an intrinsic excellence, arising solely from truth and demonstration." To these, perhaps unnecessary... | |
 | 1846 - 502 pages
...he acquired the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, he yet did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing,...ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and plaçai his whole delight in those intellectual speculations, which, without any relation to the necessities... | |
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... any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to Mechanics, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his whole delight in those intellectual speculations, which, without any relation to the necessities... 
