 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 páginas
...were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactaatiusto confute Columbus is in a strain of gross ridicule,...feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down? that there is a part of the world in which all things are... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 páginas
...writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactantius to confute Columbus is in a strain of gross...foolish/' he asks, " as to believe that there are Chap. IV.] COUNCIL OF SALAMANCA. I23 antipodes with their feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 páginas
...on the authority of Lactantius and St. Augustine. ' Is there any one so foolish,' asks Lactantius, ' as to believe that there are antipodes, with their...feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upwards and their heads hanging down ? — That there is a part of the world in which all things... | |
 | 1833 - 480 páginas
...The passage cited by some of them, from Lactantius, to refute Columbus, is worth recording : — " Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes, with their fret opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upwards, and their heads down ; that there... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 436 páginas
...writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactantius to confute Columbus, is in a strain of...feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down? That there is a part of the world in which all things are... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 páginas
...and ridicules those who believed the earth to be round, and to be habitable on opposite sIdes. "Is any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads; —trees growing downward«; rain, snow, and hail falling... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 páginas
...and ridicules those who believed the earth to be round, and to be habitable on opposite sides. " Is any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads; — trees growing downwards ; rain, snow, and hail, falling... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 páginas
...writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactantius to confute Columbus, is in a strain of...feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 páginas
...writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactantius to confute Columbus, is in a strain of...feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 756 páginas
...writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. The passage cited from Lactantius to confute Columbus, is in a strain of...feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things... | |
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