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... South is called its Axis , in allusion to the ( asov axis or ) axletree of a chariot , because on it the earth turns round 22 once in twenty - four hours : the extremities of this axis are named the Poles ( from Toλɛν to turn ) , and ...
... South is called its Axis , in allusion to the ( asov axis or ) axletree of a chariot , because on it the earth turns round 22 once in twenty - four hours : the extremities of this axis are named the Poles ( from Toλɛν to turn ) , and ...
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... South ) are so called , because they are near to the two Poles of the Earth , from which they are the same distance as the Tropics are from the Equator ( viz . 23 degrees ) . These Polar Cir- cles bound those portions of the Earth ...
... South ) are so called , because they are near to the two Poles of the Earth , from which they are the same distance as the Tropics are from the Equator ( viz . 23 degrees ) . These Polar Cir- cles bound those portions of the Earth ...
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... South Pole X than the point S. From this it follows , that the portion of the Earth within the North Polar Circle N P , will at this time of the year enjoy day - light during the whole diurnal revolution of the Earth ; whilst , on the ...
... South Pole X than the point S. From this it follows , that the portion of the Earth within the North Polar Circle N P , will at this time of the year enjoy day - light during the whole diurnal revolution of the Earth ; whilst , on the ...
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... South to North for about six hours , after which it seems to rest for about a quarter of an hour ; it then begins to fall and retire back again from North to South for six hours more , when , after an apparent pause of a quarter of an ...
... South to North for about six hours , after which it seems to rest for about a quarter of an hour ; it then begins to fall and retire back again from North to South for six hours more , when , after an apparent pause of a quarter of an ...
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... South Latitude , E. for East , and W. for West Longitude . 4. The Latitude of a place is its nearest distance from the Equator , either North or South ; when the place is North of the Equator , it is said to be in North Latitude , when ...
... South Latitude , E. for East , and W. for West Longitude . 4. The Latitude of a place is its nearest distance from the Equator , either North or South ; when the place is North of the Equator , it is said to be in North Latitude , when ...
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A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography: For the Use of Eton School Aaron Arrowsmith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1839 |
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Seite 23 - 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.
Seite 508 - 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...
Seite 18 - Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine, Deep felt , in these appear ! a simple train, Yet so delightful mix'd , with such kind art, Such beauty and beneficence combin'd; Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade; And all so forming an harmonious whole ; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.
Seite 6 - 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...
Seite 10 - 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.
Seite 565 - Christ were so united as to form only one nature, yet without any change, confusion, or mixture of the two natures.
Seite 14 - 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.
Seite 742 - Cleombrotus; and many more, too long. Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery...
Seite 81 - 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 honor'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...
Seite 152 - 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.