 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...is separated from his country, than the aspect of au unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendor the milky way, and tracks of space remarkable for their... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...the immense distance by which he is separated from bis country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...hemisphere to the other, we saw. those stars, which we had been accustomed to see from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance which separates him from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. The grouping of stars... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracts of space remarkable for their... | |
 | William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracts of space remarkable for their... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink and finally disappear. Nothing...grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, scattered nebuhe, rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracks of space remarkable for their extreme blackness... | |
 | William Adams - America - 1836 - 508 pages
...passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...The grouping of the stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracts of space remarkable for their... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...the north pole, not one of this class is found. " Nothing," says Humboldt, " awakens in the traveler a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by...country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament, — without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without having any acquaintance with the celestial... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...from one hemisphere to the other, \ve see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. Nothing...country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament.' — vol. ii. p. 19The following passage gives a favourable specimen of M. de Humboldt's talent for... | |
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Nothing awakens in the traveller a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated from his country, than the aspect of an unknown firmament. 
