 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...sensible conversation. Thomas Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hadley's Quadrant....have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...sell-taught mathematician, great in his •way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hartley's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way, and was...have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...members of our Junto, was Thomas Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hadley's Quadrant....have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, and was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - Lyceums - 1830 - 72 pages
...sulf-taught mathernitticiait, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called llnifleij's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way. and was...have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was forever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hadley's quadrant. But lie knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing...he expected universal precision in everything said, and was forever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all conversation. I continued... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hadltifs quadrant. Hut he knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing...have met with, he expected universal precision in even1 thing said, and was forever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1833 - 886 pages
...his friends. Franklin describes him as " a self-taught mathematician, great in his way," but adds, " he knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing...great mathematicians I have met with, he expected precision in every thing, and was ever denying and distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hartley's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way, and was...have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now VOL. i. 11 called Hadl-ey's Quadrant.* But he knew little out...have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now VOL. i. 6 called Hartley's Quadrant.* But he knew little out of his way, and...have met with, he expected universal precision in every thing said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all... | |
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Quadrant. But he knew little out of his way, and was not a pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everything said, or was for ever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance... 
