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... , giving name to the Gulph of Venice , which separates Italy from Turkey in Europe . The lower part of Turkey in Europe is called Roumelia , antiently Greece , and the lowest part of it is called the Morea , antiently 13.
... , giving name to the Gulph of Venice , which separates Italy from Turkey in Europe . The lower part of Turkey in Europe is called Roumelia , antiently Greece , and the lowest part of it is called the Morea , antiently 13.
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... Gulph of Venice is the Tyrol , and Carinthia , Istria , and Carniola , and above Turkey in Europe are the Dominions of the Emperor of Austria , Hungary , and Bohemia . These , together with a consider- able tract of country lying east ...
... Gulph of Venice is the Tyrol , and Carinthia , Istria , and Carniola , and above Turkey in Europe are the Dominions of the Emperor of Austria , Hungary , and Bohemia . These , together with a consider- able tract of country lying east ...
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Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) the Gulph of Bothnia is Sweden , and to the West of Sweden is Norway . Above the upper part of Norway , Sweden , and Russia , is Lapland , divided into Danish ( or Norwegian ) , Swedish ...
Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) the Gulph of Bothnia is Sweden , and to the West of Sweden is Norway . Above the upper part of Norway , Sweden , and Russia , is Lapland , divided into Danish ( or Norwegian ) , Swedish ...
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... Gulph of Cadiz near Xeres and St. Lucar ; the Guadiana , which rises not very far from Toledo , and , flowing by Merida and Badajoz , falls into the Atlantic , East of Cape St. Mary ; the Tajo , or Tagus , which rises in Castile , and ...
... Gulph of Cadiz near Xeres and St. Lucar ; the Guadiana , which rises not very far from Toledo , and , flowing by Merida and Badajoz , falls into the Atlantic , East of Cape St. Mary ; the Tajo , or Tagus , which rises in Castile , and ...
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... Gulph of Eno . The chief Mountains are part of the grand Carpathian chain , running through Wallachia ; the chain of Hæmus and Rhodope ; Mount Olympus ; Athos ; and others , hereafter to be described in the account of Antient Greece 27.
... Gulph of Eno . The chief Mountains are part of the grand Carpathian chain , running through Wallachia ; the chain of Hæmus and Rhodope ; Mount Olympus ; Athos ; and others , hereafter to be described in the account of Antient Greece 27.
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Seite 216 - 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...
Seite 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Seite 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Seite 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Seite 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Seite 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.