 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1859 - 550 pages
...earth, by curious mystery divino Well balanced, hangs an ml the starry spheres. At our Anlipodes'are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined...western path To glad the nations with expected light." l] Columbus's hypothesis rested on much higher ground than mere popular belief. What indeed was credulity... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine, Well balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And throngéd empires ne'er descried of yore. That Columbus ever saw this passage, which so singularly... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...Hercules placed them there as monuments of his progress westward, and beyond which no mortal could pass. Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...voyage to Thule, or Iceland, from which remote point he says he advanced one hundred leagues northward, penetrated the polar circle,Nand convinced himself... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...center all things tend. So earth, by curious mystery divine 1 Lift and Voyage» of Columbia. H633. XXI ` M wڌ p ^Y9 N X) 1 E H f=H ɿñ ; T c _1 Fz J$ Ve{... O9Y N v q U : y W/ *Yb VPJkT T- hEQ " ] W x ` #݁P- PRESCOTT'S TRANSLATION OF STANZA 229, 230, CANTO rxv. While maturing his plans, Columbus extended the... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine, Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path, To glad the nations with expected light." IT is hardly possible in these days of scientific and mechanical triumphs, when the natural philosopher... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1864 - 780 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting free-will and necessity, their former glorious, and their... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 1052 pages
...also Humboldt, Kosmos, Vol. II. pp. 516, 556, 557, 645. t Strabo, Lib. I. p. 65 ; Lib. П. р. 118. But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light." * This translation is by our own eminent historian, Prescott, who first called attention to this testimony,f... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 784 pages
...See also Humbold:, Vol. I I. pp. 516, 556. 557, 645. \ Strabo, Lib. 1. p. 65; Lib. II. p. itS. i867.] But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expeeted light." * This translation is by our own eminent historian, Prescott, who first called attention... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1904 - 400 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...western path To glad the nations with expected light." The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting free will and necessity, their former glorious and their... | |
 | Pioneers - 1869 - 308 pages
...another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend. So earth, by curious mystery divine, Well balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. At our...ne'er divined of yore. But, see, the sun speeds on its western path, To glad the nations with expected light." WE shall now call the attention of the... | |
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Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend ; So... 
