 | 1848 - 780 páginas
...year) has done more ; it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." It is true, that the way... | |
 | percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 páginas
...which Sir F. Herschel was so convinced, that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This has at length been... | |
 | 1846 - 444 páginas
...that' speaking of the indicated planet, he said' " We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores ot Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstra'ion." This has at length been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1847 - 910 páginas
...sentence in Sir J. Herschel's address, on September the 10th, to the British Association assembled at Southampton : — ' We see it [the probable new...felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' And I am authorized by... | |
 | 1847 - 548 páginas
...adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.'' This striking para190... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 páginas
...adding, " It has done more, it has given us the probable prospect of the discovery of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." This striking paragraph,... | |
 | 1847 - 422 páginas
...British Association for the Advancement of Science at Southampton, in the following terms: — "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration." Sept. 23, the astronomers of the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 páginas
...intellectual accomplishments and spirit heighten our ideas of human nature, Sir John Ilcrschcl — ' we saw it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....been felt, trembling along the farreaching line of air analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.' It appcurs that it... | |
 | 1847 - 516 páginas
...— " It has done more: it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus enw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have...felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration." And the same discussion... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 páginas
...hunters after Neptune, by words indicating faith in the existence of the planet. " We see it," said he " as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain....felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration !" And the same men who... | |
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This feeling communicated itself to others. Sir John Herschel said in September, 1846, at a meeting of the British Association at Southampton, " We see it (the probable new planet) as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been... 
