 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 pages
...believed the earth to be round, and to be habitable on opposite sIdes. "Is any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads; —trees growing downward«; rain, snow, and hail falling upwards?" (De Falsa Sapientia, iii. 24.)... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 pages
...believed the earth to be round, and to be habitable on opposite sides. " Is any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads; — trees growing downwards ; rain, snow, and hail, falling upwards?" (De Falsa Sapientia, iii. 24.)... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...the earth to be round, and to be habitable on opposite sides. " Is any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads;— trees growing downwards; rain, snow, and hail, falling upwards 1" " De Falsa Sapientia," iii. 24. In... | |
 | 1863 - 348 pages
...charging folly and impiety against all who said the earth was a sphere. Is any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads ; trees growing downwards ; rain, snow, and nail falling upwards ? " Coming down about three hundred... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 536 pages
...the idea that there can be antipodes, and he can scarcely credit that there can be any one so silly as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or that grain and trees grow downwards, and nun, snow, and hail fall upwards to the earth. After jesting... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, William Chandler Bagley - 1920 - 462 pages
...flat. Many wise men said so too. One of them had written in a big book : " Can any one be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or that there are places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1920 - 494 pages
...foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or that there are places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards ? " Other wise men boldly said that the earth was round. Among the first to advance this idea was Aristotle,... | |
 | Clark Barnaby Firestone - 1924 - 474 pages
...theory that one might reach the east by sailing west. "Can any one be so foolish," asked Lactantius, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where trees may be growing backward or rain falling upward? Where is the marvel of the hanging gardens of... | |
 | John Kirtland Wright - 1925 - 596 pages
...reasons. His arguments were obvious but seem puerile to us: "Is there any one so stupid," he asked, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads?"" It puzzled him to explain how trees could grow upside down or rain fall upward. More serious were the... | |
 | Vincent Starrett - 1928 - 310 pages
...the prior had remained unconvinced. " Can anyone be so foolish," the ridiculous priest had asked, " as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where trees grow backward and rain falls upward? Where is the marvel of the hanging gardens at Babylon, if... | |
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Is any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads; — trees growing downwards ; rain, snow, and hail, falling upwards? 
