 ... 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 any account of them in writing. For he considered all...  Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne - Page 119by Plutarchus - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bossut - Astronomy - 1803 - 580 pages
...pot 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...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge be so valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 314 pages
...rouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For be considered all attention to mechanics, and ev«ry art that ministers to common uses, as mean and sordid ; and placed bis whole delight in those intellectual speculations which, without any relation to the necessities... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 378 pages
...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...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge is valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 504 pages
...not vouchsafe to leave any account ot them in writing; for he considered all attention to mechanu:it, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge is valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Inventions - 1822 - 524 pages
...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...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence, arising from truth and demonstration only." Surely nothing can be more preposterous than to entertain an opinion... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...vouchsafe to leave behind him any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to Mechanics, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean...whole delight in those intellectual speculations, whiqh, without any relation to the necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth... | |
 | Thomas Morell - Philosophy - 1827 - 614 pages
...them in writing : for he considered all attention to mechanics, and every art which ministers merely to common uses, as mean and sordid, and placed his...delight in those intellectual speculations, which have an intrinsic excellence, arising from truth and demonstration only." — Plut. in Vit. Marcell.... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1831 - 380 pages
...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...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth and demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowlege is valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...vouchsafe to leave • any account of them in writing; for he considered all attention to mechanic3, and every art that ministers to common uses, as mean...necessities of life, have an intrinsic excellence arising from truth *nd demonstration only. Indeed, if mechanical knowledge is valuable for the curious frame... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Cotton growing - 1836 - 478 pages
...accommodation. But according to his admirer, Plutarch, he disdained all such palpable problems, considering every art that ministers to common uses as mean and sordid, and placing his whole delight in those intellectual speculations which, without any reference to the necessities... | |
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