A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton Schoolauthor, 1839 - 847 էջ |
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... latter from the word Planet by which all those bodies moving round the Sun are designated . The name Planet is from the Greek Marine which signifies wanderer ; and inasmuch as these celestial lights never preserve for any length of time ...
... latter from the word Planet by which all those bodies moving round the Sun are designated . The name Planet is from the Greek Marine which signifies wanderer ; and inasmuch as these celestial lights never preserve for any length of time ...
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... latter causes the different lengths of day and night , as well as the phænomena of the Seasons 50 . 30 27. It is this latter which makes the Sun to appear as if it had such an annual motion round us , and it may be better understood by ...
... latter causes the different lengths of day and night , as well as the phænomena of the Seasons 50 . 30 27. It is this latter which makes the Sun to appear as if it had such an annual motion round us , and it may be better understood by ...
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... latter than in the former 36 ; insomuch , that he takes up about eight days more in seeming to pass from the Vernal to the Au- tumnal Equinox , than from the Autumnal to the Vernal - although in both intervals of time , he seems to pass ...
... latter than in the former 36 ; insomuch , that he takes up about eight days more in seeming to pass from the Vernal to the Au- tumnal Equinox , than from the Autumnal to the Vernal - although in both intervals of time , he seems to pass ...
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... latter from the Earth : and in like manner , there can be no Eclipse of the Moon but when she is full in , or near , one of the Nodes , because , then only the Earth comes so between her and the Sun , as to hinder the rays of the latter ...
... latter from the Earth : and in like manner , there can be no Eclipse of the Moon but when she is full in , or near , one of the Nodes , because , then only the Earth comes so between her and the Sun , as to hinder the rays of the latter ...
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... latter people , as well as the natives , are supposed to have called the Scilly Islands Estrymnides , the Land's End Estrymnis Pr . , and Mount's Bay Estrymnicus Sinus . But the Phoenicians must have known not only these Scilly Islands ...
... latter people , as well as the natives , are supposed to have called the Scilly Islands Estrymnides , the Land's End Estrymnis Pr . , and Mount's Bay Estrymnicus Sinus . But the Phoenicians must have known not only these Scilly Islands ...
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A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton School Aaron Arrowsmith Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1839 |
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Africa afterwards Alps amongst ancient appear appellation Arabia Armenia Asia Minor Assyria banks birth-place Boii borders Britain built Cæsar called capital Carm Caspian Sea celebrated chief city chief town Church Claudian coast Colchis contained Danube derived its name district divided dominion Duchy dwelled Earth East Eastern Eastward emperor Empire Euphrates Europe extended famous farther Galatia Gaul Germany Greece Greeks Gulf hence Illyricum inhabitants island Italy king kingdom latter likewise longitude Lucan Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea mentioned metropolis Moesia Mons Moon mountains mouth Noricum North Northern Ocean Ovid Palus Pannonia Peloponnesus peninsula Persian Phrygia population possession principal promontory province quæ Rhine rises river Roman colony Rome Sarmatia Saxons shores Sinus situated South Southern square miles stood Syria temple territory Thessaly Tigris tribes VIII Virg West Western whence whole δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε
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Էջ 23 - 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 508 - 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 18 - Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine, Deep felt , in these appear ! a simple train, Yet so delightful mix'd , with such kind art, Such beauty and beneficence combin'd; Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade; And all so forming an harmonious whole ; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.
Էջ 6 - 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 10 - 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 565 - Christ were so united as to form only one nature, yet without any change, confusion, or mixture of the two natures.
Էջ 14 - 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.
Էջ 742 - Cleombrotus; and many more, too long. Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery...
Էջ 81 - 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 honor'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 152 - The Confederated States engage, in the same manner, not to make war against each other, on any pretext, nor to pursue their differences by force of arms, but to submit them to the Diet, which will attempt a mediation by means of a Commission.