| John Lawrence - 1796 - 416 pàgines
...divides fpeed from ftoutnefs in horfes, or to regulate the oeconomy of bits, halters, and fuddles ; are all drawn from Euclid, Ariftotle, and the Schools,...prefumptuous fceptic. He had read Dee's prefaces before, j> The Devil and Euclid, o'er and o'er. His book contains many more learned quotations than pages,... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1875 - 348 pàgines
...could enter with fun and good humour, though he never relished the imputations of being like him who " Had read Dee's prefaces before The Devil and Euclid o'er and o'er ;" but he had no patience with a similar folly and imbecility being manifested by not a few of the... | |
| Charlotte Fell-Smith - 1909 - 396 pàgines
...Optics, philosophy and statics, Magic, horoscopy, astrology, And was old dog at physiology ; . . . He had read Dee's Prefaces before The Devil and Euclid, o'er and o'er ; And all the intrigues 'twixt him and Kelley, Lescus, and the Emperor, would tell ye." One may wonder... | |
| Benjamin Woolley - 2002 - 380 pàgines
...charismatic, and not entirely trustworthy character. iSi PART SEVEN THE PRINCE AND THE JUGGLER 4[He] had read Dee's prefaces before The Devil, and Euclid o'er and o'er, And all th' intrigues 'nvixt him and Kelley, Lascus and th' Emperor, would tell ye. SAMUEL BUTLER,... | |
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