The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles Chiefly Selected from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany, and Minerology : Arranged in Alphabetical OrderNathan Elliott of Catskill, and Websters and Skinners, of Albany, 1816 - 412 oldal |
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12. oldal
... breadth . Lofty mountains are scattered all over this country ; in one of which , called the Mountain of the Moon , the Egyptian Nile has its source . For half the year they en- joy a cloudless sky ; the other six months is a rainy sea ...
... breadth . Lofty mountains are scattered all over this country ; in one of which , called the Mountain of the Moon , the Egyptian Nile has its source . For half the year they en- joy a cloudless sky ; the other six months is a rainy sea ...
12. oldal
... breadth ; situated between the equator and 20 ° south latitude ; bounded north by Terra Firma and Guiana east by Brazil ; south by Paraguay , and west by Peru . This country was first traversed in 1580 , by Francisco Orellana , who ...
... breadth ; situated between the equator and 20 ° south latitude ; bounded north by Terra Firma and Guiana east by Brazil ; south by Paraguay , and west by Peru . This country was first traversed in 1580 , by Francisco Orellana , who ...
16. oldal
... divinities Rollin . ARABIA , a country of Asia , situated between twelve and thirty degrees north latitude ; extending fourteen hundred and thirty miles in length , and twelve hundred 6 ARBELA . 17 in breadth ; bounded by the.
... divinities Rollin . ARABIA , a country of Asia , situated between twelve and thirty degrees north latitude ; extending fourteen hundred and thirty miles in length , and twelve hundred 6 ARBELA . 17 in breadth ; bounded by the.
17. oldal
... breadth ; bounded by the Red Sea and the isthmus of Suez , by the river Euphrates , by the Persian Gulph , and by the Indian Ocean . It was through the desarts or wilderness of Arabia , that the children of Israel pass- ed in their ...
... breadth ; bounded by the Red Sea and the isthmus of Suez , by the river Euphrates , by the Persian Gulph , and by the Indian Ocean . It was through the desarts or wilderness of Arabia , that the children of Israel pass- ed in their ...
21. oldal
... breadth . frigid zone in Asia is much wider than it is in Europe ; the former continent hardly knows a temperate zone . From the Northern Ocean to Caucasus , ( says Montes- quieu ) Asia may be considered as a flat mountain ; thence to ...
... breadth . frigid zone in Asia is much wider than it is in Europe ; the former continent hardly knows a temperate zone . From the Northern Ocean to Caucasus , ( says Montes- quieu ) Asia may be considered as a flat mountain ; thence to ...
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332. oldal - 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...
298. oldal - 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...
30. oldal - 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.
7. oldal - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
209. oldal - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream ; Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered 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...
150. oldal - ... went immediately to the vast hall or palace of Odin, their god of war, who eternally kept open house for all such guests, where they were entertained at infinite tables, in perpetual feasts and mirth...
32. oldal - As soon as he had seated himself upon a mat by the threshold of his door, a young woman, his intended bride, brought a little water in a calabash, and kneeling down before him, desired him to wash his hands ; when he had done this, the girl, with a tear of joy sparkling in her eyes, drank the water, this being considered as the greatest proof she could possibly give him of her fidelity and attachment.
68. oldal - 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.
348. oldal - Siminoles, form the most striking picture of happiness in this life; joy, contentment, love, and friendship, without guile or affectation, seem inherent in them, or predominant in their vital principle, for it leaves them but with the last breath of life.
243. oldal - The inconveniency and difficulty of weighing those metals with exactness gave occasion to the institution of coins, of which the stamp, covering entirely both sides of the piece and sometimes the edges too, was supposed to ascertain not only the fineness, but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing.