 | Isobel Grundy - 1999 - 718 דפים
...might indicate a better 'notion of Life' than the race for political power and scientific knowledge: 'I had rather be a rich Effendi with all his ignorance, than Sir Isaac Newton with all his knowledge.' In general she concealed her regret and tried to console herself by alluding to her 'rambling Destiny',... | |
 | Mohja Kahf - 1999 - 228 דפים
...tormenting our brains with some Scheme of Politics or studying some Science to which we can never attain ... I had rather be a rich Effendi with all his ignorance, than Sir Isaac Newton with all his knowledge" (Lewis, 31). Of course, there is a class element to this, for as a member of an aristocratic elite... | |
 | James Burke - 2010 - 294 דפים
...vivid descriptions of what Lady Mary saw and thought as she wandered the gardens and palaces of Turkey: "I allow you to laugh at me, for the sensual declaration...ignorance, than Sir Isaac Newton with all his knowledge." One of her observations related to the profusion of tulips to be found in Turkey. Her visit coincided... | |
 | Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - 2006 - 286 דפים
...some science to which we can never attain. ... I allow you to laugh at me for the sensual declaration that I had rather be a rich effendi with all his ignorance than Sir Isaac Newton with all his knowledge. (142) As vigorously as Montagu may assert her preference to be a "rich effendi," she asserts, as Secor... | |
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I depend upon the true knowledge you have of my heart. I don't expect from you the insipid railleries I should suffer from another in answer to this letter. You know how to divide the idea of pleasure from that of vice, and they are only mingled in the... 
