The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical OrderWebsters and Skinners, 1813 - 424 էջ |
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... hundred in breadth . Lofty mountains are scattered all over this country ; in one of which , called the Mountain of the Moon , the Egyptian Nile has its source . For half the year they en- joy a cloudless sky ; the other six months is a ...
... hundred in breadth . Lofty mountains are scattered all over this country ; in one of which , called the Mountain of the Moon , the Egyptian Nile has its source . For half the year they en- joy a cloudless sky ; the other six months is a ...
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... hundred times lighter than water . The weight of the column of air that presses on the superfi- ces of the body of a middle - sized person , is computed to be , at a medium , thirty - nine thousand and nine hun- dred pounds . The ...
... hundred times lighter than water . The weight of the column of air that presses on the superfi- ces of the body of a middle - sized person , is computed to be , at a medium , thirty - nine thousand and nine hun- dred pounds . The ...
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... hundred and sixty - two feet above the level of the sea : its top seems to reach and even pierce the highest region of the clouds ..... Walker . AMAZON , a river in South America , which has its source among the Andes , in Peru ; whence ...
... hundred and sixty - two feet above the level of the sea : its top seems to reach and even pierce the highest region of the clouds ..... Walker . AMAZON , a river in South America , which has its source among the Andes , in Peru ; whence ...
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... hundred other rivers , many of which are five or six hundred leagues in length ; and , in pouring itself into the ocean , repels its waters to the distance of many leagues from the land ..... Walker . AMAZONIA , a large country in South ...
... hundred other rivers , many of which are five or six hundred leagues in length ; and , in pouring itself into the ocean , repels its waters to the distance of many leagues from the land ..... Walker . AMAZONIA , a large country in South ...
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... hundred years , threw Asia into confusion . At length Babylon of the Chaldees , from being the vassal of Nineveh , became her rival , and the seat of a new empire ; and the Medes , some time after shook off their yoke , and dispossessed ...
... hundred years , threw Asia into confusion . At length Babylon of the Chaldees , from being the vassal of Nineveh , became her rival , and the seat of a new empire ; and the Medes , some time after shook off their yoke , and dispossessed ...
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Էջ 332 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Էջ 4 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of ^earning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned," and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, and extending the Benefits...
Էջ 298 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Էջ 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Էջ 199 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Էջ 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Էջ 149 - ... from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea; scattered through a large body of sand or clay; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Էջ 30 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Էջ 68 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Էջ 387 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers ; Strew your Hero's way with flowers.