Travels in Mexico, South America, Etc. Etc, Հատոր 2W. H. Allen & Company, 1863 |
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Էջ 93 - It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of the Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend...
Էջ 266 - In this town was now repeated what had been remarked in the province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake of 1797 ; a number of marriages were contracted between persons, who had neglected for many years to sanction their union by the sacerdotal benediction. Children found parents, by whom they had never till then been acknowledged ; restitutions were promised by persons, who had never been accused of fraud ; and families, who had long been enemies, were drawn together by the tie of common calamity.
Էջ 93 - The two great stars which mark the summit and the foot of the Cross having nearly the same right ascension, it follows hence, that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the Southern hemisphere.
Էջ 42 - It is not to be forgotten that no poet, orator, historian, or philosopher has escaped the wreck of time to show us how men thought and felt at Carthage.
Էջ 93 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Էջ 91 - We now look on space as full. We know that light is propagated, like sound, through pressure and motion. We know that there is no substance of caloric — that inscrutably minute motions cause the expansion which the thermometer marks, and stimulate our sensation of heat — that fire is not laid up in coal more than in this Leyden phial, or this weight : there is potential fire in each. If electric force...
Էջ 30 - From this remarkable plain, situated between the cities of Cuzco and la Paz, descended numerous and powerful tribes, who carried their arms, language, and arts even to the northern hemisphere.
Էջ 48 - ... knowing all languages, but pretending that he does not ; and his countrymen are said to be remarkably jealous of their discoveries being known. Acosta says : " Also other grave authors do write that a ship of Carthage, driven by force of wind into the ocean, came to a land which until then was unknown, and returning to Carthage kindled a great desire in the citizens to discover and people this and, the which the senate perceiving, did forbid this navigation by rigorous decree, fearing that *...
Էջ 41 - Egyptians, we are tempted to believe that this progress is not the effect of the intellectual developrment of the Americans themselves, but that they were indebted for it to their communication with some very cultivated nations of central Asia. The...
Էջ 266 - that amidst so many public calamities the people devoted themselves to those duties which they tbought the best fitted to appease the wrath of Heaven. Some assembled in processions and sang funeral hymns, others in a state of distraction made their confessions aloud in the streets.