"Considerer" Quotes from Famous Books
... Nephriticum, because the inhabitants of the country where it grows are wont to use the infusion of it, made in fair water, against the stone in the kidneys. This wood may afford us an experiment which, besides the singularity of it, may give no small assistance to an attentive considerer towards the detection of the nature of colours. Take Lignum, Nephriticum, and with a knife cut it into thin slices: put about a handful of these slices into two or three or four pounds of the purest ... — Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall
... usual acumen, makes much of the advantage which this circumstance conferred upon her (ubi supra): "La royne mere, italienne, florentine, et de la race des Medicis, et qui plus est, ayant depuis vingt-deux ans [rather, for twenty-five years] eu tout loisir de considerer les humeurs et facons de toutes ces gens, regardoit ce jeu, et sceut si bien empoigner l'occasion, qu'elle gaigna ... — The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird |