 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Kesolve by sines and tangent* straight If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell...Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith : Whatever... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or bntter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what honr o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st anthor hath, He nnderstood b' implicit faith ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock docs strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,...crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith : Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore ; Knew more than forty of them... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1809 - 448 pages
...scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, hy sines and tangents, straight, If hread or hutter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, hy algehra. Beside, he was a shrewd Philosopher, And had read ev'ry^text and gloss over : Whale'er... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...Knighthood. Do. 1. 15. That Latin was no more difficile, Than toa blackhird 'tis to whistle. Do. 1. 53. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher. And had read every text and gloss over. ' Do. 1. 127. This seems to be a favourite word with Butler to make a rhyme to, we have it frequently... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...and tangents, straight, If bread and butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrew'd philosopher* And had read ev'ry^text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith : ISO... | |
 | St. Clyde (fict.name.) - 1816 - 286 pages
...about Augustus, confirmed her secret opinion, that Jessie might make a worse choice. CHAPTER VIII. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read...Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood by implicit faith: Whatever sceptic could enquire for, For every why, he had a wherefore. HUDIBRAS.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell...Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over ; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood by' implicit faith ;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 416 pages
...by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, It' bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what...Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood by' implicit faith; Whatever... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he...And had read every text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbedVt author hath, He understood h' implicit faith : Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every... | |
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In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does... 
