 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1903 - 102 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... | |
 | Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 410 pàgines
...the back of that smokehouse. * * * O, WHY SHOULD WOMEN FADE? Alphonso the Wise impiously declared : " Had I been present at the creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." It is not altogether irreverent to pick some flaws in some of the modern degenerate types of created... | |
 | 1920 - 686 pàgines
...many persons are forever railing against fate. In the thirteenth century Alphonfo the Wise remarked, "Had I been present at the creation, I would have...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." Perhaps that is what a good many of us think, though we don't say it. The fact is we did not make the... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pàgines
...man? " To Alphonso the Philosopher (12211281), King of Leon and Castillo, is attributed the saying : " Had I been present at the creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." In the same way Ktienne do Vignolles, surnamed " La Hire," a famous French coudottiere (1390-1443),... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. TENNYSON— The May Queen. St. 8. CREATION is perfect freedom. Book of Common Prayer. Collect...is ... for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, wi AJLPHON60 X, THE WlSE. 2 For we also are his offspring. ARATUS — Phenomena. Said to be the passage... | |
 | Dean Acheson - 1970 - 858 pàgines
...DEAN ACHESON MY YEARS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT PRESENT AT THE CREATION This One JJY2-UBD-R37Y "Had I been present at the creation I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." — Alphonso X, the Learned, 1252-84, King of Spain PRESENT AT THE CREATION My Years in the State Department... | |
 | 1985 - 442 pàgines
...detector. Everything between is smoky. Castile, after studying Ptolemy's geocentric system of astronomy: "Had I been present at the creation, I would have...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." The assertions of QM are unfamiliar and appear paradoxical in the light of common experience. However,... | |
 | Will Kyselka, Ray Lanterman - 1984 - 166 pàgines
...expressed his dissatisfaction with the system a thousand years after Ptolemy with a great irreverence: "Had I been present at the Creation, I would have...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." Copernicus, in 1543, put the sun at the center of his world model. The idea had appeal, for it neatly... | |
 | DAVID BRESSOUD - 2001 - 404 pàgines
...Appendices F = ma The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. —Psalm 19 Had I been present at the creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. —attributed to King Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284) [Newton] has so clearly laid open and set before... | |
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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. 
