A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 էջ |
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... important than the others , by reason of the Orbit , in which the Earth performs it's annual period ( and which the Sun seems to move round every year ) , running under the very middle of them : these Constellations , being fancied to ...
... important than the others , by reason of the Orbit , in which the Earth performs it's annual period ( and which the Sun seems to move round every year ) , running under the very middle of them : these Constellations , being fancied to ...
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... important of them will be found attached to those plates of the Eton Atlas , to which they respectively belong . The old Roman mile was shorter than the British Statute Mile , as a degree of latitude con- tained 75 of them , each of ...
... important of them will be found attached to those plates of the Eton Atlas , to which they respectively belong . The old Roman mile was shorter than the British Statute Mile , as a degree of latitude con- tained 75 of them , each of ...
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... important river in Europe is the Danubius ( or Ister ) Danube , which rises on the borders of Gaul and Germany , separates the latter country from Vindelicia , Noricum , and Pannonia , and flows , with an Easterly course , between ...
... important river in Europe is the Danubius ( or Ister ) Danube , which rises on the borders of Gaul and Germany , separates the latter country from Vindelicia , Noricum , and Pannonia , and flows , with an Easterly course , between ...
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... important cities in Assyria were Nineveh Mosul , and Ctesiphon Al Modain , both on the R. Tigris ; in Mesopotamia were Edessa Orfa , Charræ Harran , and Nisibis Nisibin ; in Babylonia were Seleucia Al Modain , and Babylon Hillah . 14 ...
... important cities in Assyria were Nineveh Mosul , and Ctesiphon Al Modain , both on the R. Tigris ; in Mesopotamia were Edessa Orfa , Charræ Harran , and Nisibis Nisibin ; in Babylonia were Seleucia Al Modain , and Babylon Hillah . 14 ...
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... important ; from it's lying so immediately under the Sun , the maritime parts only are inhabited , the inland country being a vast sandy desert . There is no cultivation , except in the im- mediate vicinity of a river or spring , all ...
... important ; from it's lying so immediately under the Sun , the maritime parts only are inhabited , the inland country being a vast sandy desert . There is no cultivation , except in the im- mediate vicinity of a river or spring , all ...
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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...