 | American essays - 1860 - 804 pages
...have brought to light, and have recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst out upon me. Nothing holds me ; I will indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over... | |
 | Howard L. Parsons - Philosophy - 1979 - 224 pages
...—the wonder of triumphant discovery — Kepler, indulging his "sacred fury", recalled: "It is not eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...three months since the dawn, very few days since the sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst upon me. . . " In the early stages of the man-child and the man-species... | |
 | DAVID BRESSOUD - Mathematics - 2001 - 404 pages
...preface to his chapter on the planets in Harmonics Mundi: It is not eighteen months since I caught the first glimpse of light, three months since the...days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst upon me. Nothing restrains me; I shall indulge my sacred fury; I shall triumph over mankind... | |
 | Arthur P. Mendel - Alienation (Social psychology) - 1999 - 364 pages
...Kepler, after his calculations of planetary orbits, stated these ideas in a similar manner. It is not eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst upon me. Nothing holds me; I will indulge my sacred fury; I will triumph over mankind by... | |
 | Baden Powell - Mathematics - 1834 - 436 pages
...least part of my delight), but in another very different, and yet most perfect and excellent. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...Nothing holds me : I will indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1840 - 458 pages
...have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...to gaze on, burst out upon me. Nothing holds me : I wjll indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession, that I have... | |
 | Bible - 1850 - 838 pages
...have brought to light, and have recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst upon me. Nothing holds me ; I will indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over mankind by the honest... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 798 pages
...have brought to light, and have recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light,...days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst out upon me. Nothing holds me ; I will indulge in my sacred fury; I will triumph over mankind... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Religion - 1882 - 414 pages
...8th of March, 1618 ! Kepler writes — " It is now eighteen months since I caught the first glimpses of light ; three months since the dawn ; very few days since the unveiled sun, admirable to gaze upon, burst out upon me. Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury, — I will... | |
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I will indulge in my sacred fury ; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of Egypt. 
