[Tex/LaTex] Figure next to text in beamer

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I can't get my code to do what I want. I'm working in beamer and I want to position my figure on the left side of the frame and the text next to it, but I would like to work with alineas in my text.
Here's my latest attempt:

\documentclass{beamer}  
\usetheme{Madrid}   
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}  
\usepackage{curvedarrows}  
\usepackage{cutwin}  
\usepackage{lipsum}  
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}  
\def\leq{\leqslant}  
\def\geq{\geqslant}   

\title{De regel van Horner: \\ Een vleugje geschiedenis}  
\date{}  

\begin{document}

\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}  

\begin{frame}[plain]  
  \titlepage  
\end{frame}  

\begin{frame}  
       \begin{tabular}{cl}  
           \includegraphics[height=5cm, width=3.5cm]{horner} & bla bla 

    *here I want to start a new alinea, so in my second column* bla bla  
         \end{tabular}  
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

Best Answer

You can use a nested tabular or tabularx environment, in order to provide a better alignment, in combination with a \parbox command, the width of the latter has to be adapted to fit into the frame better.

\documentclass{beamer}  
\usetheme{Madrid}   
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}  
%\usepackage{curvedarrows}  
%\usepackage{cutwin}  
\usepackage{lipsum}  
%\usepackage[3D]{movie15}  
\def\leq{\leqslant} % eleganter \leq-symbool  
\def\geq{\geqslant} % eleganter \geq-symbool  

\title{De regel van Horner: \\ Een vleugje geschiedenis}  
\date{}  
\subject{Slides voor het vak Vakdidactiek wiskunde} % zichtbaar in het "Properties"   venster van de PDF-viewer  
\keywords{LaTeX, beamer, presentaties} % idem  

\begin{document}

\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}  

\begin{frame}[plain]  
  \titlepage  
\end{frame}  

\begin{frame}  
       \begin{tabular}{cl}  
         \begin{tabular}{c}
           \includegraphics[height=5cm, width=3.5cm]{horner}
           \end{tabular}
           & \begin{tabular}{l}
             \parbox{0.5\linewidth}{%  change the parbox width as appropiate
             \textbf{William George Horner} (geboren in 1786, gestorven in 1837) was een Brits wiskundige. 

    Hij studeerde aan de Kingswood School in Bristol, waar hij reeds op 14(!)-jarige leeftijd een masteropleiding volgde. Daarna trok hij richting Bath waar hij een school stichtte.  
    }
         \end{tabular}  \\
\end{tabular}
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

(Since I did not have the horner image at hand, I used one of Erwin Schrödinger instead ;-))

enter image description here

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