 | Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 pages
...luill be there f Tbefe luere their learned Speculations And all their confront Ocoupation} To meafure Wind, and weigh the Air, And turn a Circle to a Square ; To make a Powder of the Sun, By iwbich all Doilors jhould b' undone ; To jlnd the North-weft Pa/age cut, Although the farthejl Way... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pages
...if it do, how long 'twill last? Or if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations, And all their...make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors shou'd t>' undone; To find the nonh-west passage out, Altho' the farthest way about ; If chemists from a rose's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...it do, how long 'twill last ? Or if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations, And all their...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should be' undone, To find the north-west passage out, Although the furthest way about; If chemists... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 500 pages
...extent. CHAPTER III. THE OPINIONS ENTERTAINED THAT A GHOST WAS A MATERIAL, PRODUCT, St7I GENERIS. " These were their learned speculations, And all their...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; To find the North-west Passage out, Although the farthest way about ; — If chemists... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1827 - 344 pages
...the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were thdr learned speculation.1! And all their constant occupations ; To measure wind,...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; To fad the North-west passage out, Although the farthest way about ; If chymisUfrom... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 438 pages
...whether France or Holland yet, Or Germany be in its debt. They then proceed with other speculations. To measure wind and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square, And in the braying of an ass Find out the treble and the bass, If mares neigh alto, and a cow A double... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 pages
...it do, how long 'twill last ? Or, if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations, And all their...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; To find the north-west passage out, Although the farthest way about ; If chemists... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 316 pages
...it do, how long 'twill last? Or, if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations, And all their...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; To find the north-west passage out, Although the farthest way about; If chemists... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...expressly satirizing the Society's weekly meetings and their mathematical and physical pursuits. " These were their learned speculations, And all their...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; To find the north-west passage out,, Although the farthest way about ; If chymists... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 pages
...expressly satirizing the Society's weekly meetings and their mathematical and physical pursuits. •• These were their learned speculations, And all their...measure wind and weigh the air, And turn a circle to ft square; To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone; To find the north-west... | |
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These were their learned speculations, And all their constant occupations, To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square ; To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b... 
