 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Children's literature - 1849 - 274 pages
...in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance: — "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...countries where this kind of inquisition tryannises There [Florence] It wo a that I found and viv.ted the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." One editorial note to... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopagitica, Hollis's... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...nothing had been there written now trftjse many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Fransciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...without the Castle of St. Angelo of an imprimatur;" and when the bold champion of English liberty " found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." * I would ask for the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fashion. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican masters thought. And though I knew that England... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...L_ NOTE 41, PAGE 96. There, unseen. Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," says he, " that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." " Old and blind," he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...nothing had been written there now these many years, but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...tyrannizes ; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had. —There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." '' Areopagitica," Hollis's... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
