 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
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 1896 - 344 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 six thousand years for an observer like myself." "Fear not," said Julius Caesar to his pilot frightened in a storm, " thou bearest Csesar... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - Astronomy - 1896 - 352 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 six thousand years for an observer. had found a combination of glasses through which... | |
 | 1913 - 564 pages
...I rejoice; if you are angry, I ran 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. The scientific investigator may not seek particularly... | |
 | John Bessner Huber - 1914 - 198 pages
...intellectual endurance; loyalty." — Minot. "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." — Kepler. "We may regrat the loss of many... | |
 | Nutrition - 1914 - 640 pages
...intellectual endurance ; loyalty. — Alinot. 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. — Kepler. We may regret the loss of many charming... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Research - 1916 - 382 pages
...beyond my most sanguine expectations . . . 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. Kepler. The meaning of Kepler's three laws of... | |
 | Walter William Bryant - 1920 - 74 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 six thousand years for an observer." He gives the date I5th May, 1618, for the completion... | |
 | University of Iowa - Philology - 1921 - 876 pages
...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."15 "I care not whether my work be read now or... | |
 | John Burroughs - Authors, American - 1922 - 324 pages
...equal cheerfulness I can wait." Kepler said: "The die is cast; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity. I care not which. It may well...God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself." 254 Judging from fragments of his letters that I have seen, Henry James was unquestionably... | |
 | John Burroughs - Authors, American - 1922 - 318 pages
...equal cheerfulness I can wait." Kepler said: "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, since God has waited she thousand years for an observer like myself." Judging from fragments of his letters that I have... | |
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