| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1904 - 442 páginas
...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 ; where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows... | |
| Frederick Albion Ober - 1906 - 338 páginas
...may be 27 summed up in their citations from a revered religious writer: "Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes, with their...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 topsyturvy;... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 712 páginas
...are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward, and then- heads hanging down? That there is a part of the world...topsy-turvy: where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the roundness of the earth," he... | |
| John Roy Musick - 1908 - 556 páginas
...believe there are antipodes with their feet opposite ours; people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down; that there is a part...the world in which all things are topsy-turvy; where trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the... | |
| JOHN R. MUSICK - 1907 - 610 páginas
...believe there are antipodes with their feet opposite ours; people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down; that there is a part...the world in which all things are topsy-turvy; where trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the... | |
| 1857 - 732 páginas
...antipodes was disposed of by the following passage from Lactantius, — "Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes with their...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... | |
| Charles Loftus Grant Anderson - 1911 - 702 páginas
...could never have crossed the wide sea." Likewise Lactantius, who had said : "Is there anyone so foolish as to believe that there are Antipodes, with their...with their heels upwards and their heads hanging down — where everything is topsy-turvey ; where the trees grow with their branches downwards, and where... | |
| Henry Buswell Wetherill - 1914 - 330 páginas
...it was foolishness to 'believe that there are people over against us on the other side of the world 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,... | |
| Elizabeth Miller - 1915 - 450 páginas
...believe that there are antipodes, with their feet opposite ours, people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down? That there is a part...the world in which all things are topsyturvy; where trees grow with their branches downward; where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the roundness... | |
| Ada Walker Camehl - 1916 - 510 páginas
...sailors would die of starvation before they came to it. "Is any one so foolish to believe," they asked, "that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down? \Vhere trees grow with their branches downwards, and where it... | |
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