Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific ... and Illustrated by More Than One Thousand Engravings ... with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazeteer, Band 2C.D. Strong, 1840 |
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... kind . The Musmon ( Ovis musmon ) is considered as a link between the sheep and goat , resem- bling both of them . It is found in Greece , Sardinia , Corsica , and Tartary . It is strong and muscu- lar , and runs with great agility over ...
... kind . The Musmon ( Ovis musmon ) is considered as a link between the sheep and goat , resem- bling both of them . It is found in Greece , Sardinia , Corsica , and Tartary . It is strong and muscu- lar , and runs with great agility over ...
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... kind of Europe . It inhabits the northern parts . It is 7 or 8 feet high , and its horns are of a large size . It is timid and inoffensive , and runs with great swiftness , in a high shambling kind of trot . The Reindeer ( C. tarandus ) ...
... kind of Europe . It inhabits the northern parts . It is 7 or 8 feet high , and its horns are of a large size . It is timid and inoffensive , and runs with great swiftness , in a high shambling kind of trot . The Reindeer ( C. tarandus ) ...
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... kind of animal food is excessive , and when hungry it will attack all sorts of ani- mals ; even man himself has sometimes fallen a victim to its rapacity . The Jackal ( C. aureus ) is found in Greece . It goes in packs , and hunts like ...
... kind of animal food is excessive , and when hungry it will attack all sorts of ani- mals ; even man himself has sometimes fallen a victim to its rapacity . The Jackal ( C. aureus ) is found in Greece . It goes in packs , and hunts like ...
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... kind , five species : Woodcock , Great Snipe , Common Snipe , Judcock , and Knot . Of the Godwit ( Limosa ) , eight species : Godwit , Red Godwit , Cinereous Godwit , Cambridge God- wit , Lesser Godwit , Greenshank , Spotted Redshank ...
... kind , five species : Woodcock , Great Snipe , Common Snipe , Judcock , and Knot . Of the Godwit ( Limosa ) , eight species : Godwit , Red Godwit , Cinereous Godwit , Cambridge God- wit , Lesser Godwit , Greenshank , Spotted Redshank ...
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... kind have accumulated , and payment is demand- ed , it becomes necessary to satisfy the demand , either by paying the debt , or affording the creditors a security for the principal , and regular payment of the interest . Recourse has ...
... kind have accumulated , and payment is demand- ed , it becomes necessary to satisfy the demand , either by paying the debt , or affording the creditors a security for the principal , and regular payment of the interest . Recourse has ...
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Seite 655 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 726 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 668 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Seite 846 - I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Seite 524 - ... that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride...
Seite 950 - I went on in the procession, close by the tower of Moloch ; which, as it was drawn with difficulty, " grated on its many wheels harsh thunder.* After a few minutes it stopped; and now the worship of the God began. — A high priest mounted the car in front of the idol, and pronounced his obscene stanzas in the ears of the people; who responded at intervals in the same strain. ' These ' songs,' said lie, ' are the delight of the God. His ' car can only move when he is pleased with the ' song.'—...
Seite 950 - The walls and gates are covered with indecent emblems, in massive and durable sculpture. I have also visited the sand plains by the sea, in some places whitened with the bones of the pilgrims ; and another place, a little way out of the town, called by the English the Golgotha, where the dead bodies are usually cast forth, and where dogs and vultures are ever seen...
Seite 840 - I rode still onwards, and on approaching a spot less thickly planted, was not a little surprised to see in front of me a body of several thousand cavalry drawn up in line, and extending right and left quite as far as I could see ; and, checking my horse, I awaited the arrival of my party, under the shade of a wide-spreading acacia.
Seite 950 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forward.
Seite 846 - Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance was affecting in the highest degree. I was oppressed by such unexpected kindness, and sleep fled from my eyes. In the morning I presented my compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons which remained on my waistcoat — the only recompense I could make her.