 ... philosopher; for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2431821Full view - About this book
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 lehte
...went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple. In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously... | |
 | 1912 - 332 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved around it, or it around the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...head with any of those numerous theories by which a philospher would have perplexed bis brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere.... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun ; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam, and curiously... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1915 - 326 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun ; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. STUDY HINTS Study the spelling and meaning of these words : transparent perplexity infallible coincidence... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling,...head with any of those numerous theories, by which a philosJB opher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere.... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 408 lehte
...know whether the sun revolved round it or it round the sun ; and he had watched for at least half 20 a century the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling...accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. — Knickerbocker's History of New York. 1. What is humorous about the description of van Twiller's... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 lehte
...went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple. In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously... | |
 | Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 lehte
...philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above or settled below the cares and troubles of this world. In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, curiously carved about the arms and feet. Instead of a scepter, he swayed a long Turkish pipe. In this... | |
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