 | Samuel Drew - 1824 - 742 Seiten
...pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some little of the tale. But as the case is, I can scarce help thinking, but the present stones were always...stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless any will be at the pains to pulverize them." In what age they were set up, or on what occasion, it... | |
 | William Penaluna - 1848 - 370 Seiten
...pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some little of the tale. But as the case is, I can scarce help thinking, but the present stones were always...stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless any will be at the pains to pulverize them." At Cradoc, in this parish, there ma formerly a chapel... | |
 | John Thomas Blight - 1860 - 206 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood, appear directly over them immoveable pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some...unless they will be at the pains to pulverize them." A steep ascent will now reach the Cheesewring, supposed by geologists to be a natural production, by... | |
 | 1867 - 674 Seiten
...transformed into these pillars of stone ; but as Hals, an old writer on Cornish antiquities, quaintly says, " I can scarcely help thinking but the present stones...stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless man will be at the pains to pulverise them." The great mass of stones called the Cheesewring, standing... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them, immovably pendent in the air one might be apt to credit some...stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless people will be at the pains to pulverize them. 5.— HOCKEY. The hockey stick has a straight handle,... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1872 - 246 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them, immovably pendent in the air one might be apt to credit some...stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless people will be at the pains to pulverize them. 5.— HOCKEY. The hockey stick has a straight handle,... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1879 - 290 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them immovably pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some...reduced to their original dust, or been cut in twain to serve the purposes of the farmer. The Northern circle consists at present of 13 stones, 6 of which... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1870 - 532 Seiten
...the ball which these hurlers used, when flesh and blood, appear directly over them, immovably pendant in the air, one might be apt to credit some little...unless they will be at the pains to pulverize them." A foreigner, however, who, in 1661, published at Amsterdam a Latin work, entitled " Rutgeri Harmannidae... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1882 - 298 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them immovably pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some...reduced to their original dust, or been cut in twain to serve the purposes of the farmer. The Northern circle consists at present of 13 stones, 6 of which... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1882 - 300 Seiten
...Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them immovably pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some...has been fully demonstrated, and that many of these un, fortunate hurlers have been long since reduced to their original dust, or been cut in twain to... | |
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Hals, a writer on Cornish antiquities, adverting to this legend, quaintly remarks, " Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them immovably pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some little of the tale... 