 | 1864 - 480 pagina’s
...sky where there were no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those who saw it were filled with such great fear and dismay, that they were astounded, Imagining they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come. 2. " Eodem anno (1. e. 1866) die sequent!... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1852 - 448 pagina’s
...•where there were no stars, seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those who saw it were filled with such great fear and dismay, that they were astounded, imagining they were struck dead, and that the end of the world had come." 21 Newer epochs of comparison might... | |
 | 1864 - 968 pagina’s
...sky where there were no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those who saw It were filled with such great fear and dismay, that they were astounded, imagining they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come. 2. "Eodem anno (ie 1866) die sequentl... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pagina’s
...were no stars seemed to be divided into many »arts, and this lasted for a long time. Those who sawi t were filled with such great fear and dismay, that they were astounded, imaginng they were struck dead, and that tho end of the world had come." Humboldt, when traveling in... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1868 - 248 pagina’s
...sky where there were no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those who saw it were filled with such great fear and dismay, that they were astounded, imaginir.g they were struck dead, and that the end of the world had come. teors in 1833 (November,... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 pagina’s
...there were no stars, seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those that saw it were filled with such great fear and dismay that they were astounded, imagining they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come." This apparently improbable account... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 684 pagina’s
...which became visible three days after the memorable meteoric exhibition in October of that year, when ' there was a movement of the stars such as men never...fear and dismay that they were astounded, imagining they were struck dead, and that the end of the world had come,' as the exaggerated language of the... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1883 - 482 pagina’s
...clamor." * The great meteoric display of I866 produced similar effects. An historian of the time says : " Those who saw it were filled with such great fear...that they were astounded, imagining that they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come." f How could such a universal terror have fixed... | |
 | 1882 - 900 pagina’s
...and alarm were exhibited during the great meteoric display of 1366. An historian of that time says, " Those who saw it were filled with such great fear...that they were astounded, imagining that they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come." The terror and alarm produced among the colored... | |
 | 1899 - 628 pagina’s
...there were no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted for a long time. Those that saw it were filled with such great fear and dismay that they were astounded, imagining they were all dead men, and that the end of the world had come." This description, although vague and... | |
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... together, that as they descended low in the air, they seemed large and fiery, and the sky and the air seemed to be in flames, and even the earth appeared as if ready to take fire. 
