Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgment of the American Universal Geography : Containing Astronomical Geography, Discovery and General Description of America, General View of the United States ...I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1802 - 432 oldal |
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... These were all fuppofed to be fixed in fepa- rate cryftalline fpheres , and to be included in another , called the Primum Mobile , which gives motion to all the reft . THE BRAHEAN SYSTEM . Tycho Brahe , a nobleman of Denmark , and one ...
... These were all fuppofed to be fixed in fepa- rate cryftalline fpheres , and to be included in another , called the Primum Mobile , which gives motion to all the reft . THE BRAHEAN SYSTEM . Tycho Brahe , a nobleman of Denmark , and one ...
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... These are the comets , that , defcending from the far distant parts of the fyftem with great rapidity , furprise us with the fingular appearance of a train or tail , which accom- panies them ; become vifible to us in the lower parts of ...
... These are the comets , that , defcending from the far distant parts of the fyftem with great rapidity , furprise us with the fingular appearance of a train or tail , which accom- panies them ; become vifible to us in the lower parts of ...
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... these there are fix ; the Equator , the Meridian , the Ecliptic , the Horizon , and the two Colures . Lefs Circles are those which divide the sphere into two unequal parts ; of which there are four , the two tropics and the two polar ...
... these there are fix ; the Equator , the Meridian , the Ecliptic , the Horizon , and the two Colures . Lefs Circles are those which divide the sphere into two unequal parts ; of which there are four , the two tropics and the two polar ...
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... these two par- allels , fixteen degrees broad , and divided in the middle by the ecliptic , will comprehend within it the orbits of all the planets , and is called the Zodiac . Ecliptic . ] The ecliptic is a great circle , in the plane ...
... these two par- allels , fixteen degrees broad , and divided in the middle by the ecliptic , will comprehend within it the orbits of all the planets , and is called the Zodiac . Ecliptic . ] The ecliptic is a great circle , in the plane ...
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... these five zones , one is called the torrid or burning zone ; two are ftyled frigid or frozen ; and two temperate : names indicative of the quality of the heat and cold to which their fituations are liable . The torrid zone is that ...
... these five zones , one is called the torrid or burning zone ; two are ftyled frigid or frozen ; and two temperate : names indicative of the quality of the heat and cold to which their fituations are liable . The torrid zone is that ...
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214. oldal - For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
188. oldal - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
214. oldal - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from...
104. oldal - England is a high, hilly, and in some parts a montanous country, formed by nature to be inhabited by a hardy race of free, independent republicans. The mountains are comparatively small, running nearly north and south in ridges parallel to each other. Between these ridges, flow the great rivers in majestic meanders, receiving the innumerable rivulets and larger streams which proceed from the mountains on each side. To a spectator on the top of a neighbouring mountain...
268. oldal - ... of others if it is large, he tows it after him, and conducts it wherever he pleases with the little tree and hut upon it.
135. oldal - ... in the world, the youth of which more fully enjoy the benefits of school education, than at Boston. And when we consider how inseparably the happiness and prosperity of America, and the existence of its. present happy government, are connected with the education of children, too much credit can not be given to the enlightened citizens of. this town, for the attention they have paid to this important business, and the worthy example they have exhibited for the imitation of others. Next in importance...
74. oldal - ... a neighbouring mountain on a rock, on which his feat and the print of his feet are ftill to be feen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were flaughtered, except the big bull, who prefenting his forehead to the...
114. oldal - Tinroouth, ofl the fide of a fmall hill, is a very curious cave. The chafm, at its entrance, is about four feet in circumference. Entering this you defcend 104 feet, and then opens a fpacious room 20 feet in breadth and 100 feet in length.
214. oldal - ... as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below. Here the eye ultimately composes itself ; and that way, too, the road happens actually to lead. You cross the...
74. oldal - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians ; that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended...