 | Washington Irving - 1861 - 492 páginas
...ecclesiastical .learning, yet their writings were calculated to perpetuate darkness in respect to the sciences. people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down 1 That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy : where the trees grow with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 350 páginas
...so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antip'o-des with their feet opposite to ours ; that there is a part of the world in which all things...branches downward, and where it rains, hails and snows, upwards ? " Col. I have already answered this objection. If there are people on the earth who are our... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 202 páginas
...people who live on the other side of it, with their feet opposite to ours ; who walk with their feet upward and their heads hanging down ; that there is...downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows, upward !" 16. Others said, that if the Earth were round, and a ship should sail westward until it had gone... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours, — that there is a part of the world in which all things...downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows, upward'?'' Col. I have already answered this objection. If there are people oa the earth who are our antipodes,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 páginas
...world is flat. ' Is there anyone so foolish,' asks the wise Lactantius, ' as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours — people who walk with their feet upwards, and their heads hanging down ; that there is a part of the world in which all things... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 528 páginas
...ours ; pe( pie who walk with their heels upward, and thei heads hanging down ? That there is a part 01 the world in which all things are topsy-turvy where the trees grow with their branches down ward, and where it rains, hails and snows up ward ? The idea of the roundness of the earth,he... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 páginas
...there are men whose feet stand opposite to ours, and who are able to walk with •their legs upwards and their heads hanging down ; that there is a 'part of the world where all things are topsy-turvy — where the trees grow with their branches downwards, and where... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1869 - 420 páginas
...believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours, — that there is a part of the \vorld in which all things are topsy.-turvy, where the trees...branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows, upward'?1' Col. I have already answered this objection. If there are people oa the earth who are our... | |
 | Children - 1872 - 168 páginas
...so absurd a notion. " Could anything be more foolish," they said, " than 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 are... | |
 | 1872 - 692 páginas
...a learned man to support their views : " I> there any one so foolish, 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 T — that there is a part of the world in which all thinga are... | |
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Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their 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 topsy-turvy... 
