 | Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that thou¿h in the invention of these machines, 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... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
...copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines 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, for he considered all attention to... | |
 | 1846 - 500 pages
...copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines 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, for he considered all attention to... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1854 - 56 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of 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 all attention to Mechanics,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1860 - 718 pages
...copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, iii.it, though in the invention of these machines he gained lhu reputation of a man endowed with divine, rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanics^ and... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of 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 all attention to Mechanics,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of 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 all attention to Mechanics,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 pages
...of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the repxitation of 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 all attention to Mechanics,... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 482 pages
...tells the thoughts of God. Why did Archimedes invent the astonishing machines which secured to him " the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge ? " This is the answer : that he might have in them systems that would all the time declare his great... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1881 - 786 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machine* he- gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave nny account of the m in writing. For he considered ill attention to mechanics, and... | |
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... knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave 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,... 
