The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical OrderWebsters and Skinners, 1813 - 424 Seiten |
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... sixty - two feet above the level of the sea : its top seems to reach and even pierce the highest region of the clouds ..... Walker . AMAZON , a river in South America , which has its source among the Andes , in Peru ; whence running ...
... sixty - two feet above the level of the sea : its top seems to reach and even pierce the highest region of the clouds ..... Walker . AMAZON , a river in South America , which has its source among the Andes , in Peru ; whence running ...
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... sixty years , the same ill - fated city was a third time overturn- ed , with the loss of not less than sixty thousand per- sons .... Goldsmith . ANTIPODES , in geography , those who live so dia- metrically opposite to each other , that ...
... sixty years , the same ill - fated city was a third time overturn- ed , with the loss of not less than sixty thousand per- sons .... Goldsmith . ANTIPODES , in geography , those who live so dia- metrically opposite to each other , that ...
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... sixty - one of them , on that occasion , casting their votes . into the urn of death . St. Paul was brought before this high and ancient court ; where he delivered that pow- erful address recorded in the 17th of Acts ; and Dyoni- sius ...
... sixty - one of them , on that occasion , casting their votes . into the urn of death . St. Paul was brought before this high and ancient court ; where he delivered that pow- erful address recorded in the 17th of Acts ; and Dyoni- sius ...
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... possessing very nutritious qualities . It produces a cluster of sixty or four - score fruit , which come to ma- turity all at once ; but it pushes out shoots , of every de- BANIAN TREE .... BANISERILE . 29 gree of magnitude ,
... possessing very nutritious qualities . It produces a cluster of sixty or four - score fruit , which come to ma- turity all at once ; but it pushes out shoots , of every de- BANIAN TREE .... BANISERILE . 29 gree of magnitude ,
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... sixty thousand tons of shipping Its population is greatly decreased ; owing considerably to the dreadful hurricanes with which it has often been visited one of which , October 10 , 1780 , destroyed no less than four thousand three ...
... sixty thousand tons of shipping Its population is greatly decreased ; owing considerably to the dreadful hurricanes with which it has often been visited one of which , October 10 , 1780 , destroyed no less than four thousand three ...
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Africa America ancient animal appear Asia Atlantic Ocean bark beautiful bird body bounded breadth called carried century China coast colour Connecticut river continued covered degrees distance dred earth east Egypt eight empire England Europe extending feet fire fish five hundred flowers forty four hundred France gold Goldsmith Greenland grows head hundred miles inches Indians inhabitants island Jamaica Julius Cæsar kind king kingdom lake land Laplanders latitude live manner Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea miles in length million Missisippi mountains mouth natives New-York north latitude northern Pacific Ocean Persia Pierre plant pounds pounds weight prodigious produce quantity Red Sea remarkable resembles river Roman round seven ships situated sixty skin sometimes South America Spain species Syria thick thirty thousand miles three hundred tion town tree twelve twenty vast vegetable Voyages whole Winterbotham
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Seite 332 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Seite 4 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of ^earning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned," and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, and extending the Benefits...
Seite 298 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Seite 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 199 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Seite 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Seite 149 - ... from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea; scattered through a large body of sand or clay; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Seite 30 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Seite 68 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Seite 387 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers ; Strew your Hero's way with flowers.