 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 a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.  Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 29by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...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 a century for a reader, as God has waited 6000 years for an observer." That this knell of the old astronomy should not have... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1888 - 844 pages
...man be called happy till his death ! '' A truly great author is not in haste to be canoni/ed. " I can wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer," said the greatest of astronomers. Shakespeare betrays no desire for popularity. Milton would have "... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...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 a century for a reader, as God has waited 6000 years for an observer." That this knell of the old astronomy should not have... | |
 | Mormons - 1892 - 648 pages
...Kepler, the great astronomer, who, after his discovery of the three laws of heavenly bodies, exclaimed: "The book is written, to be read now or by posterity...God has waited six thousand years for an observer!" With the ancients, there existed seven sciences; namely, grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry,... | |
 | David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...admirable to gaze on — burst out upon me. . . 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 interpreter of his works." As the planes of the orbits... | |
 | David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...admirable to gaze on — burst out upon me. . . 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 interpreter of his works." As the planes of the orbits... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - Astronomy - 1892 - 180 pages
...The book is written. Tt may be read now or in the years • to come ; I care not which. It well may wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." But is n't it odd, children, that even Kepler, wise as he was, full of such depth and reasoning1, even... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1894 - 430 pages
...over mankind and build a tabernacle to God ! 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 interpreter." And not into the lives of great men, only,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Conduct of life - 1894 - 480 pages
...predicted his own fame. Kepler said it did not matter whether his contemporaries read his books or not. " I may well wait a century for a reader since God has waited 6000 years for an observer like myself." Tear not," said Julius Ctcsar to his pilot frightened in a... | |
 | Henry Albert Stimson - Apologetics - 1895 - 278 pages
...wonderful laws of astronomy, said, as he sent his book to the press, " I can well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." This is God's testimony to the power of truth. How ample, how sure the words when God's Word deals... | |
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