 | 1872 - 344 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... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 páginas
...Fathers ; and a passage from Lactantius " Is 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 ? that there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy,... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 páginas
...that 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... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 páginas
...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...downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward 1 The idea of the roundness of the earth, he added, was the cause of inventing this faLlo of the antipodes,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1875 - 388 páginas
...of Colum bus, that the world was round. " Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes, with their feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward and theii heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy ;... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 páginas
...THE EARTH IS ROUND RIDICULED. A IS there any one so foolish, he asked, 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 are topsyturvy... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 420 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...branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows, upward'?7' Col. I have already answered this objection. If there are people oa the earth who are our... | |
 | Josiah Woodward Leeds - 1877 - 500 páginas
...who walk opposite to us, with their heels upward and their heads hanging down ; where everything is topsy-turvy, where the trees grow with their branches...downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward." Wherefore the junta decided against countenancing any such erroneous and dangerous notions. Several... | |
 | Albert Sherman Lee - 1880 - 236 páginas
...Bible. Another said, how absurd to believe that there are people with their feet opposite to ours, who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging...the trees grow with their branches downward ; and that it rains and snows and hails upward. These are some of the fabulous objections urged against the... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 338 páginas
...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 are...grow with their branches downward, and where it rains and snows upward?" Cnl. I have already answered this objection. If there are people on the earth who... | |
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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... 
