 I can bear it; the die is 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.  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page lxxiby British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 348 pages
...laws of nature, Kepler exclaimed, " Nothing holds me. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer."! Gcdileo. — Contemporary with Kepler was... | |
 | Samuel Miner Campbell - 1877 - 352 pages
...indulge my sacred fury. If you forgive me, I rejoice : if you are. angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity,...not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." * The planets, all sought out and counted,... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1877 - 296 pages
...in my sacred fury. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, — to be read either now or...posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century fur a reader, as God has waited six thonsand years for an interpreter of his worki." Sir John Herschel... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pages
...confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it : the die is cast, 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... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1878 - 736 pages
...my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice ! if you are 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 pages
...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,...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome of the Copernican Astronomy, was condemned at Rome, and... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur K. Bartlett - 1881 - 76 pages
...indulge my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity,...not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer ! " Contemporary with Kepler was the celebrated... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1881 - 488 pages
...indulge my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity,...not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer !' "* The late Lord Lytton, in the beautiful... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...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... | |
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