 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
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1876 - 348 pages
...REVOLUTION OF THE PLANETS ABOUT THE SUN, ARE PROPORTIONAL TO THE CUBES OF THEIR MEAN DISTANCES FROM THE SUN.* In rapture over the discovery of these three...God has waited six thousand years for an observer."! Gcdileo. — Contemporary with Kepler was the great Florentine philosopher, Galileo. He discovered... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...and exclaimed, — " The die is cast ! The book is written to be read, either now or by poS' terity, I care not which ! It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer I" THE GAME OF LIFE. JG SAXE. 1. rilHERE'S a game... | |
 | Samuel Miner Campbell - Astronomy - 1877 - 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...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." * The planets, all sought out and counted, number eight ; f besides which, several of these are attended... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1877 - 296 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 fur a reader, as God has waited six thonsand years for an interpreter of his worki." Sir John Herschel... | |
 | Percy Strutt - Bible - 1877 - 480 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 for a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."* § 5. Mr. Mill... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - Bible - 1878 - 736 pages
...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 for an observer •/'" — (Mitchell's "Orbs of Heaven." Routledge&... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 738 pages
...man be called happy till his death ! " A truly great author is not in haste to be canonized. " 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 "fit... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome... | |
 | Robert Galloway - Science - 1881 - 488 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...God has waited six thousand years for an observer !' "* The late Lord Lytton, in the beautiful dedication of " Zanoni" to Gibson, the Great Sculptor,... | |
 | Arthur K. Bartlett - Astronomy - 1881 - 76 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...God has waited six thousand years for an observer ! " Contemporary with Kepler was the celebrated Italian astronomer, Galileo, who improved and first... | |
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