 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1875 - 706 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, stales, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. Hut see, the sun speeds on his western path To... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 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." * This translation is by our own eminent historian, Prescott, who first called attention to the testimony,3... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 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." — PULCI ; before Columbus. " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 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...his western path To glad the nations with expected light."—PULCI ; before Columbus. " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Eeady to pass to the American... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 558 pages
...divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, stales, And throngid empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds...western path To glad the nations with expected light." a This translation is by our own eminent historian, Prescott, who first called attention to the testimony,3... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1878 - 292 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. Luiffi Pulci. Tr. WH Prescolt. FOUR weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas, Life, where was never... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 638 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 VOYAGE TO VINLAND. FOUR weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas, Life, where was never life... | |
 | George Palmer - Indians - 1879 - 282 pages
...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...western path, To glad the nations with expected light." Canto xxv., stanzas 229, 230. Yes, long previous to the Scandinavian discovery of the " good vinland,"... | |
 | Alfred Williams - Canals, Interoceanic - 1880 - 150 pages
...another hemisphere, " Since to one common center all things tend ; " So Earth by curious mystery divine " Well balanced hangs amid the starry spheres. " At...western path " To glad the nations with expected light." Five years later, the discovery of a continent beyond the western ocean by Columbus startled the world... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1882 - 262 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 !' While intensely anxious to put his views to the test by experiment, Columbus was too poor to equip... | |
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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... 
