 A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he...  A Visit to Australia and Its Gold Regions - Page 11by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1853 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 466 pages
...notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. 142. Compare Tennyson's Ulysses : — There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her mil : There gloom... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1886 - 468 pages
...of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille,.he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon." 142. Compare Tennyson's Ulysses : — There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 492 pages
...recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation; and, without having acquired any notion of astronomy, he feels he is not in Europe, when he...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heaven and the earth, in the equinoctial regions, assume an exotic character." "The sunsets in the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pages
...notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon." 142. Compare Tennyson's Ulysses : — " There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and De la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon." 142. Compare Tennyson's " Ulysses : " Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, —... | |
 | Sandra Herbert - Geologists - 2005 - 538 pages
...Southern Hemisphere. Placing himself in the position of the universal traveler, he wrote that the traveler "feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense...phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heaven, and the earth, every thing in the equinoctial regions, assumes an exotic character." When he... | |
 | 1815 - 664 pages
...of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of FLAMSTEAD and 1 > i LA CAILLE, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, ur the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon. The heaven and the earth, every thing... | |
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