Travels in Mexico, South America, Etc. Etc, Հատոր 2W. H. Allen & Company, 1863 |
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Էջ 83 - It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day; and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of the Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend...
Էջ 307 - This is not only one of the most amusing books that we have read for a long time, but also the best and most reliable account of Russian Life and Manners which has hitherto been given to the public.
Էջ 306 - This is a really valuable work. A book which will long remain the standard authority on the subject. No one who has been to the Channel Islands, or who purposes going there will be insensible of its value.
Էջ 254 - In this town was now repeated what had been remarked in the province of Quito, after the tremendous earthquake of 1797 ; a number of marriages were contracted between persons, who had neglected for many years to sanction their union by the sacerdotal benediction. Children found parents, by whom they had never till then been acknowledged ; restitutions were promised by persons, who had never been accused of fraud ; and families, who had long been enemies, were drawn together by the tie of common calamity.
Էջ 38 - It is not to be forgotten that no poet, orator, historian, or philosopher has escaped the wreck of time to show us how men thought and felt at Carthage. That there were Carthaginian writers we know."! In the " Periplus " we read that Hanno sailed with sixty ships of fifty oars each, and 30,000 men and women ; which would give 500 persons in each. This was for a coasting and colonizing * Vide the dissertation in Stillingfleet's
Էջ 83 - The two great stars which mark the summit and the foot of the Cross having nearly the same right ascension, it follows hence, that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the Southern hemisphere.
Էջ 306 - Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners of the Desert. By E. DAUMAS, General of the Division Commanding at Bordeaux, Senator, &c., &c. With Commentaries by the Emir Abd-el-Kadir (Authorized Edition). 8vo. 6s. " We have rarely read a work giving a more picturesque and, at the same time, practical account of the manners and customs of a people, than this book on the Arabs nnd their horses.
Էջ 81 - We now look on space as full. We know that light is propagated, like sound, through pressure and motion. We know that there is no substance of caloric — that inscrutably minute motions cause the expansion which the thermometer marks, and stimulate our sensation of heat — that fire is not laid up in coal more than in this Leyden phial, or this weight : there is potential fire in each. If electric force...
Էջ 37 - ... combination with forms of worship which demanded a peculiar observation of the heavenly bodies, or that a maritime people existed in America, or that the system was brought to the country by the Carthaginians, who would have learned it from the Chaldees, the commencement of whose empire is fixed at 2234 BCJ The religion of Tyre is known to * The Asteks had months of 13 days, of which 1461 made their cycle of 52 years, by which a supernumerary quarter-day was accurately adjusted. Herodotus considers...
Էջ 307 - Edwards' book; and, when we inform our readers that his two volumes are replete with matter of the same kind, they will easily judge of the amount of entertainment to be derived from his labours. So abundant is his material, that he might, if he had pleased, have filled a dozen quartos; and, as he himself confesses, he found the task of omission heavier than that of collection. Let us add, that he has omitted well, and that he has seasoned a pleasant and instructive history with the very concentrated...