 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.  Bruce's Travels and Adventures in Abyssinia - Stran 220avtor: James Bruce - 1860 - 350 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 strani
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 814 strani
...roots on the surface of the soil, thus proclaimed his sensations to the world : " It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that...distinguished from the last only by the difference of numbers which had perished, and agreed alone in the disappointment which had uniformly and without... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 strani
...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 strani
...accomplishment of his wishes cannot better be expressed than in his own words : ' It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 - 586 strani
...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,...inquiry of both ancients and moderns, for the course of nearly 3000 years! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies; and each expedition was... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 326 strani
...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 strani
...stood in rapture above 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...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... | |
 | 1838 - 534 strani
...stood in rupture above the principal fountain which rises in the middle of it. It U easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that...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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