 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 páginas
...learning. " Is there any one so foolish," asks Lactantius, " as to believe that there arcantipodes with their feet opposite to ours; people who walk...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1833 - 480 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester, Andrew Foster - 1846 - 504 páginas
...confute Columbus is in a strain of gross ridicule, unworthy of so gfave a theologian. ' Is there any one so foolish,' he asks, ' as to believe that there are...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 are... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 578 páginas
...idea of a western continent, by the writings of Lactantius. " Is there anyone so foolish," says he, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their...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... | |
 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1852 - 164 páginas
...idea of a western continent, by the writings of Lactantius. " Is there any one so foolish," says he, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their...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... | |
 | 1853 - 444 páginas
...renowned doctor and learned theologian that he was, thus speaks : — " Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes with their...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 tilings are topsy-turvy... | |
 | C.EDWARDS LESTER - 1854 - 466 páginas
...is in a strain of gross ridicule, unworthy of so grave a theologian. lls there any one so foolish,1 he asks, * as to believe that there are antipodes...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 are... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 páginas
...We are not vain of our science, Don Gomez ; so let us have the quotation. Don G. " Is there any one 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 are topsy-turvy , where the trees grow with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 páginas
...We are not vain of our science, Don Gomez; so let us have the quotation. Don G. " Is there any one 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 are topsy-turvy ; where the trees grow with... | |
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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 upward 1 The idea of the roundness of the earth... 
