The Quarterly Review, Volum 41William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1829 |
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... Ptolemy sent abroad a mathematical mission to enlarge the knowledge of geo- graphy , they were entertained hospitably at the court of Ruether , an imaginary king of Scotland , and returned delighted at having found , in so remote a ...
... Ptolemy sent abroad a mathematical mission to enlarge the knowledge of geo- graphy , they were entertained hospitably at the court of Ruether , an imaginary king of Scotland , and returned delighted at having found , in so remote a ...
Side 125
... Ptolemy , Tacitus , Pliny , or The Irish tradition infers their Solinus , mention their existence . having come from Spain ; and seas and climate considered , the west of that peninsula seems as natural a point for emigrating to the ...
... Ptolemy , Tacitus , Pliny , or The Irish tradition infers their Solinus , mention their existence . having come from Spain ; and seas and climate considered , the west of that peninsula seems as natural a point for emigrating to the ...
Side 227
... Ptolemy was not in the Canary or ' Fortunate ' Islands ; but on the Cape de Verde Islands ; an error made either by himself , or his commentators and map - makers , by which he has been robbed of 7 ° of longitude . 3. That the ter ...
... Ptolemy was not in the Canary or ' Fortunate ' Islands ; but on the Cape de Verde Islands ; an error made either by himself , or his commentators and map - makers , by which he has been robbed of 7 ° of longitude . 3. That the ter ...
Side 229
... Ptolemy , as a geographer and guide , as far as relates to central Africa , ' we are not in the least surprised ... Ptolemy's first meridian on the island of Ferro , one of the Canaries , as modern geographers have hitherto drawn it ...
... Ptolemy , as a geographer and guide , as far as relates to central Africa , ' we are not in the least surprised ... Ptolemy's first meridian on the island of Ferro , one of the Canaries , as modern geographers have hitherto drawn it ...
Side 230
... Ptolemy to the three above - named places , -by which not only was the known geography of the Nile utterly overturned , but the Garamantica Pharanx , which Ptolemy assigns as one of the sources of the Geir , was transported at least a ...
... Ptolemy to the three above - named places , -by which not only was the known geography of the Nile utterly overturned , but the Garamantica Pharanx , which Ptolemy assigns as one of the sources of the Geir , was transported at least a ...
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Side 449 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Side 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Side 26 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Side 242 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Side 138 - Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Side 242 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Side 295 - Twere almost sacrilege to sing Those notes amid the glare of day ; Notes borne by angels' purest wing, And wafted by their breath away. When, sleeping in my grass-grown bed, Shouldst thou still linger here above, Wilt thou not kneel beside my head, And, sister, sing the song I love?
Side 6 - God (to whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hidden...
Side 299 - It is a dark and fearful thing ; It steals along with withering tread, Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing. That thought comes o'er me in the hour Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness; 'Tis not the dread of death ; 'tis more, — It is the dread of madness.
Side 90 - Keeper of the yellow gate, bring us that picture, that we may view it. [Sees the picture.] "Ah, how has he dimmed the purity of the gem, bright as the waves in autumn ! " [To the attendant.'] Transmit our pleasure to the officer of the guard to behead Maouyenshow, and report to us his execution.