 | John Aikin - 1799 - 582 страница
...optics the inventive powers of Archimedes were astonishing. It was not without cause that he boasted, " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth :" for he perfectly understood the doctrine of the lever, and well knew, that, theoretically,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 636 страница
...could only fix your foot," it would then be, in regard to kings — ci< ra riru ;..ai T»i yii juniW, " give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth." I wish you yourself would at last fix your foot, you old Silenus, if you are really Bramhal... | |
 | 1824 - 492 страница
...— Almost every one has heard of the strange boast of the far • famed Archimedes, when he said, " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth." This saying is often quoted, by way of simile, when speaking of any great movement in the moral... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 738 страница
...mechanician, emiting in the discovery of a new principle in mechanics, a said to have exclaimed, " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the world." So may the President ev claim, with this potent syllogism in his hand; and hi« friend- from Tennessee... | |
 | 1839 - 456 страница
...already somewhat lengthened Epistle with one or two remarks. It was the vain boast of Archimedes — " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth." — It may be in vain, but it is no boast, when I say,' let truth have a place in each of your... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 страница
...inventive powers of Archimedes were astonishing. He said, with apparent, but only apparent, extravagance, " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth ;" for he perfectly understood the doctrine of the lever, and well knew, that, theoretically,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 страница
...were, Those holy men, well might they faint with fear ! f * An allusion to the saying of ARCHIMEDES, ' Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth.' t An allusion to the Prophecies concerning ANTICHIUST. See the interpretations of Mede, Newton,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 страница
...it. P. 837, 1. 16. What in his day the STKACUSAJJ sought, An allusion to the saying of ARCHIMEDES, ' Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth.' P. 887, 1. 19. Ere they came, P. 339, 1. 26. And from the latticed gallery came a chant Of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 страница
...it. P. 337, 1. 1C. What in his day the SYRACUSAN taught, An allusion to the saying of ARCHIMEDES, ' Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth.' P. 887, 1. 19. Ere they came, An allusion to the Prophecies concerning ANTICHRIST. Sec the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 страница
...circle of worshippers kneeling in silence before it. (-"Ml An allusion to the saying of Archimedes, " Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the earth." (:*2) An allusion to the prophecies concerning Antichrist. See the interpretations of Mcde,... | |
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Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the world ! " That was the expression of a man, who felt that his sphere was too limited for his powers, and who panted for a wider field upon which to display his genius. If he ever spoke with contempt of... 
