A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 էջ |
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... . DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDer . General View of the Solar System , to face the Title . Astronomical Diagrams Plan of Rome Plan of Syracuse Plan of Athens P 22 · P. 245 p . 298 P. 387 CHAPTER I. SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE . 1. WE find.
... . DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDer . General View of the Solar System , to face the Title . Astronomical Diagrams Plan of Rome Plan of Syracuse Plan of Athens P 22 · P. 245 p . 298 P. 387 CHAPTER I. SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE . 1. WE find.
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... Rome is East , whilst Lisbon is West , of London . And , as the first meridian not only extends from pole to pole , but goes round the whole Earth , thus dividing it into two equal parts , called the Eastern and Western He- mispheres ...
... Rome is East , whilst Lisbon is West , of London . And , as the first meridian not only extends from pole to pole , but goes round the whole Earth , thus dividing it into two equal parts , called the Eastern and Western He- mispheres ...
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... Rome Florence Leghorn Genoa In Plate XVI . Athens Thebes TTE Bristol Liverpool York Carlisle Yarmouth Turin Milan Venice Trieste Livadia ( city ) Megara Corinth Argos Tripolitza C. Matapan What 10. The distance between any two places ...
... Rome Florence Leghorn Genoa In Plate XVI . Athens Thebes TTE Bristol Liverpool York Carlisle Yarmouth Turin Milan Venice Trieste Livadia ( city ) Megara Corinth Argos Tripolitza C. Matapan What 10. The distance between any two places ...
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... Rome from Carthage ; having measured it ( in Plate XIII . ) with a pair of compasses , apply it to the side of the map , and you will find it is 5 ° 20 ′ , which multiplied by 60 ' , produces 320 miles , the true distance between the ...
... Rome from Carthage ; having measured it ( in Plate XIII . ) with a pair of compasses , apply it to the side of the map , and you will find it is 5 ° 20 ′ , which multiplied by 60 ' , produces 320 miles , the true distance between the ...
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... Rome : the gay and wandering Numidian , as proud of his person , as he was careless of the comforts of life : the inge- nious and busy crowds of Carthage , the faithless , but much In wronged empress of Libya : the Oasis of Cyrene , D 3 ...
... Rome : the gay and wandering Numidian , as proud of his person , as he was careless of the comforts of life : the inge- nious and busy crowds of Carthage , the faithless , but much In wronged empress of Libya : the Oasis of Cyrene , D 3 ...
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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...