| John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sal among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e ed. 1780, p. 810. Milton wae at that time twenty-nine years old.] who hath... | |
| John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...Italian 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,*...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
| Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (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." (Prose Works, vol.... | |
| Children's literature - 1849 - 274 pages
...Italy, and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance: — "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical... | |
| History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...Italy, and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took... | |
| Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...countries where this kind of inquisition tryannises There [Florence] It wo a that I found and viv.ted the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." One editorial note to this is :— " This passage might have been expected to decide the question whether... | |
| John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopagitica, Hollis's ed. 1780, p. 310. Milton was at that time twenty-nine years old.] Galileo's... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...wits — that nothing had been there written now trftjse many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest... | |
| English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. " There it was that I found Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England was then groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I... | |
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