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Astronomy for Schools and General Readers

Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1882 - 326 pages
...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...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...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...
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Beacon Lights of History: Renaissance and reformation. [c1884

John Lord - 1884 - 524 pages
...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, as 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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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries with Answers in All Departments of ..., Volume 2

1885 - 580 pages
...cast, 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.' Archimedes is said to have left his bath and run through the street, exclaiming " Eureka " (I have...
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Nature and Man: Essays Scientific and Philosophical

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1888 - 518 pages
...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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." And when a greater than Kepler was bringing to its final issue that grandest of all scientific conceptions, long...
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Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A ..., Volume 1

David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...cast, 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter of his works." As the planes of the orbits of all the planets, as well as the line of their...
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Makers of Modern Thought; Or Five Hundred Years' Struggle (1200 A ..., Volume 1

David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...cast, 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter of his works." As the planes of the orbits of all the planets, as well as the line of their...
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The Lord's Song: And Other Sermons

Frederick Frothingham - 1893 - 172 pages
...high attainment by his remark concerning the book promulgating his discovery, " It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Think of Garrison, giving himself in his young manhood to the apparently hopeless task of emancipating...
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Samuel Longfellow: Essays and Sermons

Samuel Longfellow - 1894 - 430 pages
...; 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter." And not into the lives of great men, only, but into all our lives, in many simple, familiar,...
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A Study of the Sky

Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 pages
...cast, 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. had found a combination of glasses through which the weathercock on the church spire looked larger....
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