 As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.* As in philosophy...  The Scots Magazine - Seite 4461787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Warntz - 1964 - 190 Seiten
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 | Jacob Axelrad - 1967 - 504 Seiten
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 | Jacob Axelrad - 1967 - 504 Seiten
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 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 Seiten
...world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but [with his model of the planetary system] he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than...who has lived from the creation to this day. As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might show that... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1977 - 712 Seiten
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 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 Seiten
...with pardonable pride and exaggeration wrote of him in his Notes on the State of Virginia: "He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."1 His improvements in the telescope constituted another practical service to astronomy for which... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."65 From Rittenhouse's achievement Paine inferred the metaphysical truth of which so many late... | |
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