 If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer!  The Orbs of Heaven: Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds - Sida 60efter Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 302 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1869 - 406 sidor
...evening lamp, and my favourite astronomer, I chanced upon that saying of the immortal Kepler — " I can well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." (What uncountable thanks we owe the expositors of God's first volume, titled Nature ; surely no less... | |
 | 1851 - 396 sidor
...Copernicus is written on the stars. of Egypt. * * * The die is cast, the book is written, to be read now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well...God has' waited six thousand years for an observer." Again Truth had triumphed, God was vindicated, and Kepler is a deathless name. Vain would it be in... | |
 | 1851 - 416 sidor
...the most astonishing feat ever performed in the whole range of pure science, when he said : " I can wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Milton too " fell on evil times ;" but he wrought for truth with the strength of a giant, and the constancy... | |
 | Queenwood college - 1853 - 292 sidor
...I have raised a tabernacle to my God far from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice j if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast....God has waited six thousand years for an observer!" Years have passed away, .generations have succeeded generations. Science has progressed, rapid, irresistible... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 698 sidor
...written, to be read either now, or by posterity, 1 care not which. It may well wait a century for 9, reader, since God has waited six thousand years for...More than two hundred years have rolled away since Xeplqr announced his great discoveries. Science has marched forward with swift and resistless energy.... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1864 - 482 sidor
...it. The die is cast ; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. I may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for a discoverer."* But family griefs were added to pecuniary embarrassment. Kepler's mother was a woman... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1867 - 362 sidor
...rejoice ; if you are angry I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either novi, or by posterity, I care not which. — It may well...domain of the mind has been extended wider and wider. Onn planet after another has been added te our system ; even the profound abyss which separates us... | |
 | 1868 - 360 sidor
...bond of suns and worlds, which won at last, led him to exclaim, in the grandeur of inspiration : — " Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury !...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In like manner our Harvey, labouring out the problem of his life, dissevers the work from the routine... | |
 | St. Andrews' Medical Graduates' Association - 1868 - 290 sidor
...Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are ungry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written,...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In like manner our Harvey, labouring out the problem of hia life, dissevers the work from the routine... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson - 1871 - 156 sidor
...of suns and worlds, which, won at last, led him to exclaim, in the grandeur of inspiration : — " Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury !...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In like manner, our Harvey, labouring out the problem of his life, dissevered the work from the routine... | |
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