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... America , though they form no part of the American continent . And , therefore , when we speak of a Quarter of the globe , we mean one of those four great divisions , into which , it is , as it were , divided by nature , each Quarter ...
... America , though they form no part of the American continent . And , therefore , when we speak of a Quarter of the globe , we mean one of those four great divisions , into which , it is , as it were , divided by nature , each Quarter ...
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... America is in the Western Hemisphere , and was altogether unknown to the ancients ; from its having been first discovered only three centuries and a half ago , we call it the New World . Of the three Quarters in the Eastern Hemisphere ...
... America is in the Western Hemisphere , and was altogether unknown to the ancients ; from its having been first discovered only three centuries and a half ago , we call it the New World . Of the three Quarters in the Eastern Hemisphere ...
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... America there is one great ridge which extends through its Western part , from the shores of the North Polar Sea to C. Horn : it is called the Rocky or Stony Mountains in North America , and the Andes or the Cordillera ( i . e . Range ) ...
... America there is one great ridge which extends through its Western part , from the shores of the North Polar Sea to C. Horn : it is called the Rocky or Stony Mountains in North America , and the Andes or the Cordillera ( i . e . Range ) ...
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... America are : the St. Lawrence , the Columbia , the Missouri , the Mississippi ( the longest river in the world ) , the Orinoco , the Amazon , and the Rio de la Plata . 30. The CHIEF PROMONTORIES in the world are : in Europe , the North ...
... America are : the St. Lawrence , the Columbia , the Missouri , the Mississippi ( the longest river in the world ) , the Orinoco , the Amazon , and the Rio de la Plata . 30. The CHIEF PROMONTORIES in the world are : in Europe , the North ...
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... America taken together . 2. THE PRINCIPAL MOUNTAINS of Europe are the Pyrenees , separating Spain from France , and stretching across the Isthmus which divides the two countries , from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea . The ...
... America taken together . 2. THE PRINCIPAL MOUNTAINS of Europe are the Pyrenees , separating Spain from France , and stretching across the Isthmus which divides the two countries , from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea . The ...
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Page 8 - 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 227 - Christ were so united as to form only one nature, yet without any change, confusion, or mixture of the two natures.
Page 1 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 112 - The Confederated States engage, in the same manner, not to make war against each other, on any pretext, nor to pursue their differences by force of arms, but to submit them to the Diet, which will attempt a mediation by means of a Commission.
Page 203 - Zone, between 4° 4' and 20° 3' north latitude and 116° 4' and 126° 34' east longitude from the meridian of Greenwich. It is surrounded on the north and west by the China Sea, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the Sea of Celebes.
Page 13 - In this case, it is obvious that the plane of the circle of illumination would be perpendicular to a line drawn from the centre of the sun to the centre of the earth...
Page 400 - I hereby authorize you to draw on the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, and of the Navy of the United States, according as you may find your draughts will be most negotiable...
Page 240 - His lieutenants, on the shores of the Red Sea, the Ocean, and the Gulf of Persia, were saluted by the acclamations of a faithful people ; and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina were as numerous (says the Arabian proverb) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm-tree.
Page 246 - High Plains" of the state1. The surface of the county is a plain which slopes gently toward the east and whose surface is broken by two large valleys, one in the northern and the other in the southern part of the county.
Page 237 - GOD having secretly predetermined not only the adverse and prosperous fortune of every person in this world, in the most minute particulars, but also his faith or infidelity, his obedience or disobedience, and consequently his everlasting happiness or misery after death ; which fate or predestination it is not possible, by any foresight or wisdom, to avoid.