A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 34
... Eastern Hemisphere , and , from their having been known ( though imperfectly ) to the ancients 13 , they are called by us the Old World : America is in the Western Hemisphere , and was altogether unknown to the ancients ; from it's ...
... Eastern Hemisphere , and , from their having been known ( though imperfectly ) to the ancients 13 , they are called by us the Old World : America is in the Western Hemisphere , and was altogether unknown to the ancients ; from it's ...
الصفحة 35
... Eastern extremity , till it joined the shores of the Hesperii Æthiopes , on the coast of Guinea . But others again , imagined that the Indian Ocean was only a great inland sea like the Mediterranean , and they , therefore , left the ...
... Eastern extremity , till it joined the shores of the Hesperii Æthiopes , on the coast of Guinea . But others again , imagined that the Indian Ocean was only a great inland sea like the Mediterranean , and they , therefore , left the ...
الصفحة 47
... Eastern extremity of the Lake of Constance , and Tridentum Trent on the R. Athesis : in Noricum , were , Lauriacum Lorch , on the Danube , Jovavum Salzburg , on Jovavus fl . , and Virunum Solfeld , near the R. Drave : in Pannonia , were ...
... Eastern extremity of the Lake of Constance , and Tridentum Trent on the R. Athesis : in Noricum , were , Lauriacum Lorch , on the Danube , Jovavum Salzburg , on Jovavus fl . , and Virunum Solfeld , near the R. Drave : in Pannonia , were ...
الصفحة 57
... Eastern Hemisphere , and enters the Yellow Sea a little below Nankin . In the Eastern part of Mongolia , is the Amoor or Sagalin , which rises in the Yablonnoy Mountains , and runs with an Easterly course into the Gulf of Tartary ...
... Eastern Hemisphere , and enters the Yellow Sea a little below Nankin . In the Eastern part of Mongolia , is the Amoor or Sagalin , which rises in the Yablonnoy Mountains , and runs with an Easterly course into the Gulf of Tartary ...
الصفحة 58
... Eastern coast of the Peninsula . In India extra Gangem were Adisaga Ara , on the R. Sabaracus , Besynga Zittaung , Agimoetha Siam , and the Aurea Chersonesus , or the great promontory of Malaya . To the Sinæ belonged Thinæ Sai - Gon ...
... Eastern coast of the Peninsula . In India extra Gangem were Adisaga Ara , on the R. Sabaracus , Besynga Zittaung , Agimoetha Siam , and the Aurea Chersonesus , or the great promontory of Malaya . To the Sinæ belonged Thinæ Sai - Gon ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...