 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.  The Life of Bruce: The African Traveller - Page 355by Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1815 - 500 pages
...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 ancients and moderns, for the course of near three thousand years. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...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. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...guess than to describe the situation of my mind at this 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. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...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. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | 1831 - 320 pages
...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 course of near three thousand years ! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 pages
...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. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...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 nearly 3000 years! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies; and each... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 326 pages
...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 the space of near three thousand years. Kings 236 VANITY OF BRUCE. have attempted this discovery, at... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1840 - 398 pages
...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 ! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
 | 1842 - 352 pages
...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. Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies,... | |
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