 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 586 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...western path To glad the nations with expected light. The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting freewill and necessity, their former glorious, and their... | |
 | 1837 - 656 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. * Dante, two centuries before, had also expressed the same belief in an undiscovered quarter of the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 592 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...western path To glad the nations with expected light." t • It is probably the know- and Crescimbeni, Volgar Poesia, ledge of this which has led some Venezia,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 682 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...western path To glad the nations with expected light." t • It is probably the know- and Crescimbeni, Volgar Poesia, ledge of this which has led some Venezia,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 544 pages
...toriadellaVolgarPoesia, (Venezia, applied the vast stores of his eru- 1731,) torn. iii. pp. 273, 274. PART 1. Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth,...western path To glad the nations with expected light." ll Columbus's hypothesis rested on much higher ground than mere popular belief. What indeed was credulity... | |
 | WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT - 1838 - 574 pages
...Isusual acuteness, has successfully toriadellaVolgarPoesia, (Venezia, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. PART L Since to one common centre all things tend ; So earth,...western path To glad the nations with expected light." ll Columbus's hypothesis rested on much higher ground than mere popular belief. What indeed was credulity... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Son speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light." — Vol. ii. pp. 117, 118.... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1842 - 504 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere. Since to one...ne'er divined of yore. But see, the Sun speeds on its western path To glad the nations with expected light."t of this which has led some writers canto... | |
 | 1867 - 854 pages
...Pulci, who, a generation before that event, wrote — " Men shall descry another hemisphere * « » * But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light." It is rather, however, with the prophecies made concerning the destiny of America after it was colonized,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 pages
...to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one...western path To glad the nations with expected light." The dialogues of Pulci's devils respecting free-will and necessity, their former glorious, and their... | |
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Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our Antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see,... 
