| Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross - 2007 - 353 pages
...scientific communications of the past and near present. FIRST ENGLISH PERIODICAL And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out, The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men... | |
| John Laughland - 2007 - 174 pages
...private sense-impressions, like Descartes in his stove. Rationalism and Descartes And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of Fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'carth, and no mans wit Can well direct him, where to looke for it ... 'Tis all... | |
| Anthony Pagden - 2008 - 576 pages
...English poet John Donne captured this poignantly, and somewhat despairingly, in 1611: And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. 'Tis all in peeces,... | |
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