 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 sider
...become of them in a vast and trackless ocean? Columbus tasked his ' Las Casas, Hist. 1ml., 1. i, c. 6. science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 sider
...C. 202 TIIE VOYAGE. [Book III. Columbus tasked his science :md ingenuity for reasons with which 1o allay their terrors. He told them that the direction...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | 1830 - 428 sider
...without this guide, what was to become of them in a vast and trackless ocean ? Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1846 - 414 sider
...and without this guide what was to become of them in a vast and trackless ocean? Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 sider
...Columbus tasked liis science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay their terror. He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 450 sider
...Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay their terror. He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 756 sider
...Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay their terror. He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1850 - 456 sider
...Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay their terror. He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 sider
...without this guide, what was to ' become of them in a vast and trackless ocean ? Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay...direction of the needle was not to the polar star, which, like the other heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions, and every day described a circle... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 444 sider
...Columbus tasked his science and ingenuity for reasons with which to allay their terror. He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar...to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself... | |
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He told them that the direction of the needle was not to the polar star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself, which, like the other... 
