...wits; 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...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...That was the house '• where," says Milton, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " 1 found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old,-— a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy, otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought."* Great heavens ! what...

...fortitude, or a Church founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge." Milton visited, as he writes, "the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise in Astronomy than the Franciscan and Dominican Licensers thought." It is a tradition that...

...wits ; 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...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...blindin -- That was the house "where," says Milton (another of thoM of whom the world was not worthy), "I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." Great heavens 1 what...

...travels in Italy :' "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Besides the above writers, we may mention, as persons who pursued and illustrated Galileo's doctrines,...

...travels in Italy :' "There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner in the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Besides the above writers, we may mention, as persons who pursued and illustrated Galileo's doctrines,...

...left conjectural, he has himself recorded one, the most interesting of all. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."2 The words imply an excursion (perhaps more than one) to Galileo's villa at Arcetri, a little...

...acquainted with one whose name stands foremost among the martyrs of science. "There it was," he says, "that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Galileo had been imprisoned at Eome, by order of Pope Urban, for maintaining that the 1 His Defensio...

...garden at Ferrara we owe many a verse. (177) Milton went to Italy in 1638. "There it was," Bays 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 blmd in December, 1637. Milton,...