| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...policy and the engine of perverted religion, he passed two months in the conu " There it was (in Italy) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." A Speech... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...towards the Newtonian philosophy. He says himself, speaking of Italy in his Areopagitica, "there'll was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy, otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought!" It seems... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written novr these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. This obstructing... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 pages
...wits ; that nothing had there been written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." •" The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
| 1856 - 974 pages
...futuri. That was the house, ' where,' says Milton (another of those of whom the world was not worthy), ' I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought.'* Great... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...celebrated Galileo. " There it was," he says, speaking of Italy in his speech for unlicensed printing, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought f." It is probable... | |
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