A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 էջ |
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... Europe , the continent of America . An Island ( vñoos insula ) is a smaller tract of land , entirely surrounded with water , as the island of Albion or Great Britain , the island of Sicily , the island of Delos . A peninsula ...
... Europe , the continent of America . An Island ( vñoos insula ) is a smaller tract of land , entirely surrounded with water , as the island of Albion or Great Britain , the island of Sicily , the island of Delos . A peninsula ...
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... Europe , yet they do not belong to the continent of Europe , because they are entirely separated from it by the Ocean : Ceylon , the East India Islands , Australia , and the Japanese Islands are sepa- rated from the continent of Asia in ...
... Europe , yet they do not belong to the continent of Europe , because they are entirely separated from it by the Ocean : Ceylon , the East India Islands , Australia , and the Japanese Islands are sepa- rated from the continent of Asia in ...
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... Europe the smallest ; the estimated population and number of square miles contained in each , are as follow : Europe Asia Sq . Miles . 2,635,600 15,526,300 Africa 8,902,000 America - 12,892,600 Total · 39,956,500 Souls . 220,492,400 ...
... Europe the smallest ; the estimated population and number of square miles contained in each , are as follow : Europe Asia Sq . Miles . 2,635,600 15,526,300 Africa 8,902,000 America - 12,892,600 Total · 39,956,500 Souls . 220,492,400 ...
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... Europe , we find the savage robber - hordes of Thrace : the irresistible phalanxes of Macedon , hurried over half the globe by a beardless conqueror : the sacred shores of Greece , less truly said to be the central point of the Earth ...
... Europe , we find the savage robber - hordes of Thrace : the irresistible phalanxes of Macedon , hurried over half the globe by a beardless conqueror : the sacred shores of Greece , less truly said to be the central point of the Earth ...
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... Europe : the Pyrenæi or Pyrenees , the Alpes or Alps , the Hæmus Balkan or Emineh , the Carpates or Carpathians , the Sevo or Fiell , and the Hyperborei or Rhipæi now called the Oural Mountains . 2. In Asia , are : M. Caucasus , which ...
... Europe : the Pyrenæi or Pyrenees , the Alpes or Alps , the Hæmus Balkan or Emineh , the Carpates or Carpathians , the Sevo or Fiell , and the Hyperborei or Rhipæi now called the Oural Mountains . 2. In Asia , are : M. Caucasus , which ...
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A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton School Aaron Arrowsmith Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1839 |
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Էջ 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 498 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Էջ 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Էջ 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Էջ 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Էջ 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Էջ xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Էջ 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Էջ 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Էջ 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...