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" I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business. "
Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and ... - Page 188
1876
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...into an expectation of what, perhaps, they are never like to have. I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased...them, when I should be about the King's business. And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. Wallis against printing that clause which related...
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An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal: Compiled ...

Francis Baily - 1835 - 758 pages
...1698-9, which is inserted in the Appendix, No. 43. " I do not love (says Newton) to be " printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased...them, when I should be about the King's business. - - " You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with " observations of all...
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Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts, Volume 1

1836 - 432 pages
...and expressed in much warmer terms than the occasion would seem to call for, his dislike of " being printed on every occasion ; much less to be dunned...them, when I should be about the king's business." Flamsteed's reply, though in a better temper, shows a complete misapprehension of the import of this...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...into an expectation of what, perhaps, they are never like to have. I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased...them, when I should be about the King's business. And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. Wallis against printing that clause which related...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

1836 - 602 pages
...into an expectation of what, perhaps, they are never like to have. I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased...them, when I should be about the King's business. And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. Wallis against printing that clause which related...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 62

1836 - 558 pages
...into an expectation of what, perhaps, they are never like to have. I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased...about them, when I should be about the King's business ; and, therefore, I desired Dr Gregory to write to Dr Wallis against printing that clause, which related...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 20

1836 - 674 pages
..." I do not love (says Newton) to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teazed by foreigners about mathematical things ; or to be...about them, when I should be about the king's business You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 20

1836 - 472 pages
..." I do not love (says Newton) to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teazed by foreigners about mathematical things ; or to be...them, when I should be about the king's business. .... You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 28

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 pages
...never like to have. I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and tested by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be...them, when I should be about the King's business. And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. W ¡illis against printing that clause which...
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Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number CIX of the Quarterly ...

William Whewell - 1836 - 60 pages
...expressions to the shyness and love of quiet which we know to have been in his character. But when he adds, " or to be thought by our own people to be trifling...them, when I should be about the King's business," we start, as if Newton had uttered treason against the majesty of Science by depreciating her occupations...
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