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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27. oldal
... means of a basket full of stones : when this is thrown overboard , and suspended at a proper depth by a rope , the boat is prevented from being carried along with the upper current , by the pressure of the opposite current beneath on ...
... means of a basket full of stones : when this is thrown overboard , and suspended at a proper depth by a rope , the boat is prevented from being carried along with the upper current , by the pressure of the opposite current beneath on ...
31. oldal
... means , is not reduced into ashes only , but is made into a very hard stone , like rock salt , which must be broken with hammers to get it out . — Chambers . BARLEY , a common grain , and highly useful both for beer and for food ...
... means , is not reduced into ashes only , but is made into a very hard stone , like rock salt , which must be broken with hammers to get it out . — Chambers . BARLEY , a common grain , and highly useful both for beer and for food ...
32. oldal
... means of a stick that is fastened to the chain . Thus prepared , the blows upon the soles of the feet com- mence , and give excrutiating pain . There have been instances of the bastinado having been repeated for three days successively ...
... means of a stick that is fastened to the chain . Thus prepared , the blows upon the soles of the feet com- mence , and give excrutiating pain . There have been instances of the bastinado having been repeated for three days successively ...
35. oldal
... walks . With the Moors , beauty would seem to mean magnitude of bulk ; for , according to Park , the mothers cram their girls to make them plump and large . Among the inhabitants $ 6 BEAVER . of some of the western parts.
... walks . With the Moors , beauty would seem to mean magnitude of bulk ; for , according to Park , the mothers cram their girls to make them plump and large . Among the inhabitants $ 6 BEAVER . of some of the western parts.
39. oldal
... means of canoes , or small boats . - Miller . BERWICK , a small town on the borders of England and Scotland : it stands on the north or Scottish side of the river Tweed , near the sea ; it is memorable for the following extraordinary ...
... means of canoes , or small boats . - Miller . BERWICK , a small town on the borders of England and Scotland : it stands on the north or Scottish side of the river Tweed , near the sea ; it is memorable for the following extraordinary ...
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Africa ancient animal appears Asia Atlantic Ocean bark beautiful bird body bounded breadth called carried century China coast colour Connecticut river continued degrees desarts distance dred earth east Egypt eight empire England English Europe extending feet fifty fire fish five hundred forty four hundred France gold Greenland grows Gulf of Mexico head hundred miles inches Indians inhabitants island Jamaica Julius Cæsar kind king kingdom lake land Laplanders latitude live manner Mediterranean Sea miles in length million mountains mouth natives navigation New-York north latitude Pacific Ocean Persia Peru Pierre plant pole pounds pounds sterling prodigious province province of Peru remarkable river Roman round Russian empire seven ships situated sixty skin sometimes South America Spain species thick thirty thousand miles three hundred tion town tree twenty vast Voyages whole
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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.