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... ( which consists of roving independent tribes ) , and between the Black and Caspian Seas , is Russian Tartary . The whole upper part of Asia , beyond the provinces already described , belongs to Russia , and is included under 50.
... ( which consists of roving independent tribes ) , and between the Black and Caspian Seas , is Russian Tartary . The whole upper part of Asia , beyond the provinces already described , belongs to Russia , and is included under 50.
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... tribes of Africa , is Mahometan . The Abyssinians are nominally Christians , but their doctrines have been grossly corrupted . The Central and Southern tribes of Africa are generally Pagans . CHAPTER VI . AMERICA . THE immense Continent ...
... tribes of Africa , is Mahometan . The Abyssinians are nominally Christians , but their doctrines have been grossly corrupted . The Central and Southern tribes of Africa are generally Pagans . CHAPTER VI . AMERICA . THE immense Continent ...
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... tribes of Indians in this vast and thinly - peopled country are not worth enumerating . Below the River St. Lawrence and the five Lakes are the United States of America , formerly provinces of Great Britain , but severed from it , and ...
... tribes of Indians in this vast and thinly - peopled country are not worth enumerating . Below the River St. Lawrence and the five Lakes are the United States of America , formerly provinces of Great Britain , but severed from it , and ...
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... tribes which are yet uncon- verted from Paganism . POLYNESIA . THE Islands in the Pacific Ocean are compre- hended by the best modern geographers , under the name of Polynesia . It may be sufficient to enumerate the chief of these ...
... tribes which are yet uncon- verted from Paganism . POLYNESIA . THE Islands in the Pacific Ocean are compre- hended by the best modern geographers , under the name of Polynesia . It may be sufficient to enumerate the chief of these ...
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... . Georg . II . 224 . Hor . Sat. II . Hæc genus acre virum , Marsos pubemque Sabellam , Assuetumque malo Ligurem , Volscosque verutos Extulit Virg . Georg . II . 167 . them the Peligni ; these two Samnite tribes were re- 96.
... . Georg . II . 224 . Hor . Sat. II . Hæc genus acre virum , Marsos pubemque Sabellam , Assuetumque malo Ligurem , Volscosque verutos Extulit Virg . Georg . II . 167 . them the Peligni ; these two Samnite tribes were re- 96.
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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.