It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment — standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns for the course of near three thousand years. Blackwood's Magazine1864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Adams - 1816 - 352 páginas
...of it. It is easier to guess than describe the situation of my mind at that moment — standing on that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both antients and moderns, for the course of near three thousand years. Kings had attempted this discovery... | |
| Cabinet - 1824 - 440 páginas
...the work of art, and I stood in rapture over the principal fountain which rises in the middle of it. It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at this moment — standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry, of both... | |
| 1826 - 370 páginas
...the long desired spot, the sources of the Nile, 14th of November, 1770, "It is easier,'' he says, " to guess, than to describe, the situation of my mind at that moment ; standing on that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and enquiry of ancients and moderns, for the course... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 páginas
...his feelings on the accomplishment of his wishes cannot better be expressed than in his own words : ' It is easier to guess than to describe the situation...that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and enquiry of both ancients and moderns, for the course of nearly 3000 years. Kings had attempted this... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 582 páginas
...thought, how little, after all, his discovery was worth the trouble it had cost him. It had, indeed, ' baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns for near three thousand years,' and it was equally true ' that a mere private Briton had triumphed over... | |
| 1831 - 320 páginas
...the work of art, and I stood in rapture over the principal fountain, which rises in the middle of it. It is easier to guess, than to describe, the situation of my mind at that moment, standing on the spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns for the... | |
| 1832 - 626 páginas
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| 1832 - 586 páginas
...us. " I stood/' says he, " in rapture over the principal fountain, which rises in the middle of it. It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment,—standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 326 páginas
...in his own description of his first sensations, on arriving at the spot. " It is easier," he says, " to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment. Standing on that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns, for... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 páginas
...the work of art, and I stood in rapture above the principal fountain, which rises in the middle of it It is easier to guess than to describe the situation...that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and enquiry of both ancients and moderns for the course of near three thousand years. Kings had attempted... | |
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