| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 656 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...dash upon the shore, the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When the time arrived... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...the Dog star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omen?, which were gathered from the sighing of the wind in...dash upon the shore, the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When the time arrived... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing of the wind in the trees, the murmurs of tbr waters, and their dash upon the shore, the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1832 - 632 pages
...star, were 1»^lieved to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various ошепч, which were gathered from the sighing of the wind in the trees, the murmurs of ihr waters, and their dash upon the shore. the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage... | |
| Alexander Slidell- Mackenzie - 1834 - 208 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog-star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...dash upon the shore ; the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When the time arrived... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...dash upon the shore, the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When the time arrived... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog-star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...dash upon the shore ; the flight of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When the time arrived... | |
| 1839 - 580 pages
...Arcturus and the Dog-star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading ,he various omens which were gathered from the sighing...waters and their dash upon the shore, the flight of jirds, and the gambols of the fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking.... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...Arcturus and the Dog-star, тгге believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be «killed in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...of the waters, and their dash upon the shore ; the Sight of birds, and the gnmbols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking.... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 pages
...them, as Arcturus and the Dog star, were believed to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in reading the various omens, which were gathered from the sighing...waters, and their dash upon the shore, the flight of birds^ind the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. When... | |
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