The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, Volume 2

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Clarendon Press, 1905
Explains theories relating to the creation of the universe including Kepler's three laws of motion, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the Steady State and Big Bang theories.
 

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Página 366 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Página 356 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 328 - And twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar...
Página 6 - England, bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities. This (after great study) hee found could be no way so well done as one; which was to make a head of brasse, and if he could make this head to speake (and heare it when it speakes) then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse.
Página 362 - Hic Venus, indigno nati concussa dolore, Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis, et flore comantem Purpureo : non ilia feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae.
Página 68 - As this cannot infringe what he deserves. Bacon. Bungay, sit down, for by prospective skill I find this day shall fall out ominous; Some deadly act shall 'tide me ere I sleep; But what and wherein little can I guess.
Página 159 - A PLEASANT CONCEYTED CoMEDIE OF GEORGE A GREENE THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD. As it was sundry times acted by the Servants of the Right Honourable the Earle of Sussex.
Página 405 - I tell thee, Lacy, that her sparkling eyes Do lighten forth sweet love's alluring fire; And in her tresses she doth fold the looks Of such as gaze upon her golden hair: Her bashful...
Página 6 - ... out any hope of what they sought, that at the last they concluded to raise a spirit, and to know of him that which they could not attaine to by their owne studies.
Página 5 - THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON, containing the wonderfull things that he did in his life : also the manner of his death, with the lives and deaths of the two conjurers, Bungye and Vandermast. Very pleasant and delightfull to be read.

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