 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...more noble secrets in opticks, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those cre~ dulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so * See...writing well ; which though it be found in all ages and all/persons that pretend to the same reputation, yet poesy being then in more esteem than now it is,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ?—so * See VLLL. PATERC. i. 16, 17. true it is, that nothing spreads...emulation that was in those times of writing well j which though it be found in all ages and all persons that -;' pretend to the same reputation, yet... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of ir, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of it, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of it, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...was in those times of writing well; which, though it he found in all ages, and all persons that pretend to the same reputation, yet poesy heing then in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those eredulous and doling ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...was in those times of writing well; which, though it he found in all ages, and all persons prove his own advantages, or to discover the that pretend to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and 25 doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...emulation that was in those times of writing well ; which 30 though it be found in all ages and all persons that pretend to the same reputation, yet poesy, being... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 pages
...astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and „ 25 doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...cultivated. '\ ' Add to this, the more than common emulation v that was in those times of writing well ; which then in more esteem than now it is, had greater honours... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...Aristotle to us ? * [First edition, " foundation."— ED.] t [First edition, " to a great."— ED.] — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of it, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
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... almost a new nature has been revealed to us ? that more errors of the school have been detected, more useful experiments in philosophy have been made, more noble secrets in optics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous... 
