A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 pages |
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... farther , we who are now on what we call the uppermost side of the earth , are carried by it's revolution in the space of twelve hours to the situation where our Antipodes now are , although we shall be as far from them as before ; and ...
... farther , we who are now on what we call the uppermost side of the earth , are carried by it's revolution in the space of twelve hours to the situation where our Antipodes now are , although we shall be as far from them as before ; and ...
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... Farther , a line drawn from Aries to Libra , through the centre of the Sun , divides the Ecliptic into two halves ; but it unequally divides the orbit of the Earth , the greater segment of it answering to the six signs of the Ecliptic ...
... Farther , a line drawn from Aries to Libra , through the centre of the Sun , divides the Ecliptic into two halves ; but it unequally divides the orbit of the Earth , the greater segment of it answering to the six signs of the Ecliptic ...
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... farther they go from the Earth and Moon , until at last they end in a point , and so cease . This is owing to the Earth and Moon being smaller bodies than the Sun : were they the same size as the Sun , it is evident that the shadows ...
... farther they go from the Earth and Moon , until at last they end in a point , and so cease . This is owing to the Earth and Moon being smaller bodies than the Sun : were they the same size as the Sun , it is evident that the shadows ...
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... farther Westward , to the Tanais . There was also a considerable diversity of opinion with respect to the limit between Asia and Africa . The narrow Isthmus of Suez , extending from the head of the Arabian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea ...
... farther Westward , to the Tanais . There was also a considerable diversity of opinion with respect to the limit between Asia and Africa . The narrow Isthmus of Suez , extending from the head of the Arabian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea ...
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... farther West is Isca fl . Ere , the greatest river of Devonshire , which rises on the edge of Somersetshire , and runs past Exeter into the Oceanus Britannicus : beyond it is the Tamarus Tamar , which forms the greater part of the ...
... farther West is Isca fl . Ere , the greatest river of Devonshire , which rises on the edge of Somersetshire , and runs past Exeter into the Oceanus Britannicus : beyond it is the Tamarus Tamar , which forms the greater part of the ...
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Page 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 498 - 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...
Page 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Page xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Page 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...