 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pages
...introduction of the letters of the alphabet. It is certain that Herodotus did not understand it cc 3 tending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth * ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe. I will,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...introduction of tlie letters of the alphabetIt is certain that Herodotus did not understand it. tending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth * ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe. I will,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe. I will... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 524 pages
...lymbol of Ajwllj.— T. lous to hear 91 ne men talk of the circumference of the earth, iretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth , that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that \ MI i» equal to Europe. I will,... | |
 | Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1873 - 308 pages
...think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth, that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so, and that Asia is equal to Europe. I will therefore... | |
 | Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1873 - 410 pages
...think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth, that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so, and that Asia is equal to Europe. I will therefore... | |
 | 1895 - 346 pages
...think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the Earth, pretending without the smallest reason or probability that the ocean encompasses the Earth, that the Earth is round as if mechanically formed so, and that Asia is equal to Europe." He found no... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor - 1900 - 234 pages
...think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the Earth, pretending without the smallest reason or probability that the ocean encompasses the Earth, that the Earth is round as if mechanically formed so, and that Asia is equal to Europe.' Herodotus... | |
 | 1925 - 884 pages
...Attronomy of Ike Ancienti. ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth : that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe." * The... | |
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I cannot but think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so... 