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 стор. |
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... islands of the Pacific Ocean , than can easily be found described in any other book of an equal size . It was found necessary to reject a considerable number of articles which were prepared for this book , lest it should exceed the ...
... islands of the Pacific Ocean , than can easily be found described in any other book of an equal size . It was found necessary to reject a considerable number of articles which were prepared for this book , lest it should exceed the ...
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... Sea ; lying between 6 and 20 de- grees of north latitude ; and extending about nine hun- dred miles in length , and ... Pacific Ocean , two hundred and ten miles south - east of the city of Mexico . It is the seaport by which the com ...
... Sea ; lying between 6 and 20 de- grees of north latitude ; and extending about nine hun- dred miles in length , and ... Pacific Ocean , two hundred and ten miles south - east of the city of Mexico . It is the seaport by which the com ...
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... Pacific Ocean from the straits of Magellan to the isthmus of Darien , upwards of four thousand miles ; thence they run through the extensive kingdom of New Spain , till they lose them- selves in the unexplored countries of the north . M ...
... Pacific Ocean from the straits of Magellan to the isthmus of Darien , upwards of four thousand miles ; thence they run through the extensive kingdom of New Spain , till they lose them- selves in the unexplored countries of the north . M ...
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... Pacific Ocean ; this bay , on the south side of Davis's straits , has a communication with Hudson's bay , through a cluster of islands . bay of Fundy , which washes Cape Sable , is remarka- ble for the rapidity and height of the tides ...
... Pacific Ocean ; this bay , on the south side of Davis's straits , has a communication with Hudson's bay , through a cluster of islands . bay of Fundy , which washes Cape Sable , is remarka- ble for the rapidity and height of the tides ...
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... Islands , in the Pacific Ocean : it has dark leaves , and is as big as a large apple tree . The fruit is round , and grows on the boughs like apples , and measures to the size of the head of a new - born child . When ripe , it turns ...
... Islands , in the Pacific Ocean : it has dark leaves , and is as big as a large apple tree . The fruit is round , and grows on the boughs like apples , and measures to the size of the head of a new - born child . When ripe , it turns ...
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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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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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,
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.