 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, presented new constellations to our view. We felt an indescribable sensation, when on approaching the...particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we saw. those stars, which we had been accustomed to see from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...weary with admiring every night the beauty of the southern sky, which, says he, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. " We feel an indescribable sensation when approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we see those... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1829 - 738 pages
...the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation/' he exclaims, " when, on approaching the equator, and particularly...hemisphere to the other, we see those stars which we contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear. The grouping of the stars... | |
 | English essays - 1829 - 712 pages
...never wearied in admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we auvanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation," he exclaims, " when, on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...occurred to every traveller who has crossed the tropical regions. * We feel (says M. <le Huraboklt) an indescribable sensation when, on approaching the...particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, \ve see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear.... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - Africa - 1843 - 212 pages
...never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view....and finally disappear. — Nothing awakens in the traveler a livelier remembrance of the immense distance by which he is separated from his country,... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel un indescribable sensation when on approaching the equator,...particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we ieс those stnrs which we bave contemplated from oar infancy, progressively sink, and finally disappear.... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...we were never weary of admiring, at night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced to the south, opened new constellations to our view....approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from * Trigla cucullus. 134 A ITEW HEMIBPHEBE. one hemisphere to the other, we see those stars, which we... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advance towards the south, open new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable...when, on approaching the equator, and particularly in passing from one hemisphere to another, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Australia - 1853 - 218 pages
...never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced towards the south, opened new constellations to our view....when, on approaching the equator, and particularly in passing from one hemisphere to another, we see those stars which we have contemplated from our infancy... | |
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From the time we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching... 
