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" I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 115
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 49

Monthly literary register - 1820 - 694 pages
...and teazed by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our people to be triflingt away my time about them, when I should be about the king's business. Hod, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. Wallis against printing that clause, which related...
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An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal: Compiled ...

Francis Baily - Astronomers - 1835 - 758 pages
...our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business t- And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to...please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts, and what calculations you have made towards rectifying the theories of the heavenly motions...
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An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal: Compiled ...

Francis Baily - Astronomers - 1835 - 770 pages
...every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners " about mathematical things ; or to be thought by our own people to be trifling " away...them, when I should be about the King's business. - - " You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with " observations of all...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 602 pages
...upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts, and what calculations you have made towards rectifying the theories of the heavenly motions....
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 28

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1836 - 686 pages
...upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and tested by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. W ¡illis against printing that clause which related to that theory, and mentioned me about it. You...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 20

Science - 1836 - 472 pages
...upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teazed by foreigners about mathematical things ; or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...them, when I should be about the king's business. .... You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 20

Science - 1836 - 674 pages
...upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teazed by foreigners about mathematical things ; or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...about them, when I should be about the king's business You may let the world know, if you please, how well you are stored with observations of all sorts,...
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Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts, Volume 1

Science - 1836 - 432 pages
...on every occasion ; much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...them, when I should be about the king's business." Flamsteed's reply, though in a better temper, shows a complete misapprehension of the import of this...
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Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number CIX of the Quarterly ...

William Whewell - 1836 - 60 pages
...the shyness and love of quiet which we know to have been in his character. But when he adds, " or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my...them, when I should be about the King's business," we start, as if Newton had uttered treason against the majesty of Science by depreciating her occupations...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to t* thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when 1 should be about the King's business. And, therefore, I desired Dr. Gregory to write to Dr. Wallis...
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