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 Order |
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3 zone . land , one hundred and twenty miles wide , that divides it from Asia : the
greater part lies within the torrid All the inland parts of Africa , seem in all ages of
the world to have been in the same barbarous and uncivilized state in which we ...
3 zone . land , one hundred and twenty miles wide , that divides it from Asia : the
greater part lies within the torrid All the inland parts of Africa , seem in all ages of
the world to have been in the same barbarous and uncivilized state in which we ...
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In some parts of Asia and Africa , commerce has , from time immemorial , been
carried on by caravans ; which sometimes have been robbed and destroyed by
Arabian freebooters , and sometime overwhelmed by storms of sand . The
company ...
In some parts of Asia and Africa , commerce has , from time immemorial , been
carried on by caravans ; which sometimes have been robbed and destroyed by
Arabian freebooters , and sometime overwhelmed by storms of sand . The
company ...
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... of Africa , and to several interior coun“ tries of considerable extent ; so that
nearly half of the “ inhabited world bows to Europe . ” It cannot be , how . ever ,
that Europe gives laws to half the people of Asia , though it may to more than half
the ...
... of Africa , and to several interior coun“ tries of considerable extent ; so that
nearly half of the “ inhabited world bows to Europe . ” It cannot be , how . ever ,
that Europe gives laws to half the people of Asia , though it may to more than half
the ...
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GOLD DUST , a precious article , found in Africa , particularly in the country of
Manding , which borders upon the river Niger . The gold of Manding is never
found in a mine , but always in sinall grains , nearly in a pure state , from the size
of a ...
GOLD DUST , a precious article , found in Africa , particularly in the country of
Manding , which borders upon the river Niger . The gold of Manding is never
found in a mine , but always in sinall grains , nearly in a pure state , from the size
of a ...
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The origin of the Moorish tribes in the interior of Africa , seems , according to the
account of John Leo the African , to have been this .--Before the Arabian
conquests , about the middle of the ninth century , all the inhabitants of Africa ,
who had ...
The origin of the Moorish tribes in the interior of Africa , seems , according to the
account of John Leo the African , to have been this .--Before the Arabian
conquests , about the middle of the ninth century , all the inhabitants of Africa ,
who had ...
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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...
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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.
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| Վերնագիր | 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 Order |
| Հեղինակ | Ezra Sampson |
| Հրատարակիչ | Websters and Skinners, 1813 |
| Original from | Հարվարդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 25 Հունվար 2007 |
| Length | 424 էջ |
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