 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pàgines
...in three years, or would die upon the road. ALFONSO X. Had I been present at the creation, I could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Directed against the conceit of the court astronomers. Without that explanation, the remark has subjected... | |
 | William Mackintire Salter - 1889 - 566 pàgines
...Castile's words have a charm like those of Seneca. " If he had been present at the creation, he could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." Ah, if Alphonso had only realized that a part of creation was there in. his own power to refashion,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pàgines
...of all this human unwillingness, however, Alphonso the Wise of Castile was bold enough to say, •' [ ABIO TJ. These five vowels were stamped by Frederick III. of Germany upon coins and medals, and inscribed... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pàgines
...face of all this human unwillingness, however, Alphonso the Wise of Castile was bold enough to say, " Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." AEIO IT. These five vowels were stamped by Frederick III. of Germany upon coins and medals, and inscribed... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. 71. TOBIN — The Honeymoon. Act II. Sc. 1. CREATION. He o. ALPHONSO THE WISE. Creation is great, and cannot be understood. p. CAELYLE — Essays. Characteristics.... | |
 | Ralph De Clairmont - 1896 - 294 pàgines
...charged with impiety on account of his say ing, that, " if he had been present at the creation, he could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." A considerable reduction in the number of lawyers admitted to practice, and a still more considerable... | |
 | Hermann Sudermann - 1900 - 170 pàgines
...on account of one famous sentence attributed to him : " Had I been present at the creation, I could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." Emerson, in his rhymed soliloquy, put into Alphonso's mouth, sarcastically twits Nature with her depleted... | |
 | 1900 - 642 pàgines
...on account of one famous sentence attributed to him : " Had I been present at the creation, I could have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." Emerson, in his rhymed soliloquy, put into Alphonso's mouth, sarcastically twits Nature with her depleted... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...reach the spot Where I made One — turn down an empty Glass. Stanza ci. ALPHONSO THE WISE. 1221-1284. Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.1 1 Carlyle says, in his " History of Frederick the Great," book ii. chap. vii. that this... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pàgines
...errand reach the spot Where I made One — turn down an empty Glass. ALPHOXSO THE WISE. 1221-1284. Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.1 1 Carlyle says, in big " History of Frederick the Great," book ii. ^ h»p. vii. that this... | |
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. 
