 | Queenwood college - 1853 - 292 pages
...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....posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer!" Years have passed away, .generations... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - Mathematics - 1854 - 156 pages
...labors. The delight which this grand discovery gave him had no bounds. " Nothing holds me," says he : "I will indulge in my sacred fury. * * * " If you...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." What is the third Law ? Let us... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...golden vases of the Egyptians, to build up a tabernacle for my God, far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I...posterity,— I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." L ALAND E. Lalande, the French... | |
 | 1854 - 586 pages
...frenzy; I triumph over mankind ! The die is cast ; the book is written — to be read either nowor by posterity; I care not which. It may well wait a century for a read-.т, as God has Ken waiting six thousand years for un observer." What a glorious spectacle... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 pages
...Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God, far from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive rne, I rejoice : if you are angry, I can bear it ; the...either now or by posterity, — I care not which. I may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In accordance... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 504 pages
...the dawn ; a very few days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst out upon me .... the die is cast — the book is written, to be read...posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an interpreter of his works." * As the planes... | |
 | Edward Higginson - Astronomy - 1855 - 124 pages
...which, he, with true sublimity, unsurpassed in the devout annals of Science, writes thus to a friend : " The book is written ; — to be read either now or...posterity ; I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." And Galileo was Kepler's contemporary,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God, far from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice : if you are angry, I...either now or by posterity, — I care not which. I may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." In accordance... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...since the unvailed sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst out upon me. I will triumph over mankind. The die is cast ; the book is written, to be read...posterity — I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, when God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Nor yet was the hill of difficulty... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 698 pages
...indulge my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The «lie is cast. The book is 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... | |
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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, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. 
