 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...disputants my opponents, not my own opinion, but my wife's. Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called to supper, and a galad I had asked for was set before me. — " It seems then," said I aloud, " that if pewter dishes,... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 pages
...when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called to sapper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. It seem., then, I said aloud, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water,... | |
 | William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1877 - 340 pages
...The sentiment expressed is that of Kepler's wife: "Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called...pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, dreps of water, vinegar, and oil, and slices of egg, had been flying about in the air from all eternity,... | |
 | Newman Smyth - 1902 - 304 pages
...Yesterday," the astronomer relates, " when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering the atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for, was set before me. It seems then, I said, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1902 - 602 pages
...relates Kepler the astronomer, ' when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering the atoms, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. " It seems then, I said, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - 1908 - 270 pages
...in the story of Kepler and the salad : " Yesterday," he says, " when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called...dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs, had been floating about in the air from all eternity, it might... | |
 | S. I. Cohen - 1910 - 152 pages
...Nature to God," which I may be permitted to quote : "Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called to supper, and the salad I had asked for was set before me. "It seems, then," said I aloud, "that if pewter dishes,... | |
 | Charles Le Roy Goodell - 1911 - 316 pages
...Let me give a parable to the critics. " Yesterday," says Kepler, "when weary with writing and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called...that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of [19] salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs had been floating about in the air from all... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - 1912 - 258 pages
...the mind which laughs this hypothesis out of court. " Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called...I had asked for was set before me. It seems, then, I said aloud, that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and... | |
 | Ilion Tingnal Jones - 1922 - 180 pages
...and his wife's salad is to the point here. Said he, "Yesterday, when weary with writing, and my mind quite dusty with considering these atoms, I was called...dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs, had been floating about in the air from all eternity, a salad... | |
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It seems, then,' said I aloud, 'that if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of vinegar and oil, and slices of eggs, had been floating about in the air from all eternity, it might at last happen by chance that there would come a salad. 
