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... famous colony Gades , on the coast of Spain , beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and from it they made voyages to the S. W. extremity of our island ; here they procured quantities of tin , which formed such a valuable article of commerce ...
... famous colony Gades , on the coast of Spain , beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and from it they made voyages to the S. W. extremity of our island ; here they procured quantities of tin , which formed such a valuable article of commerce ...
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... famous by the well - known ballad of that name , founded on an en- counter which took place at Otterburn , A. D. 1388 , between the families of Percy and Douglas . From the Cheviot Hills a range winds to the Southward , through the ...
... famous by the well - known ballad of that name , founded on an en- counter which took place at Otterburn , A. D. 1388 , between the families of Percy and Douglas . From the Cheviot Hills a range winds to the Southward , through the ...
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... your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high- 31 Tacit . Annal . XII . 33 , et seq . Milton , Lycidas , 54 . of the Silures , there remain to be mentioned , 88 Insula Britannica - Britannia Secunda .
... your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high- 31 Tacit . Annal . XII . 33 , et seq . Milton , Lycidas , 54 . of the Silures , there remain to be mentioned , 88 Insula Britannica - Britannia Secunda .
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... famous Hengist , and corresponded with the modern county of Kent ; the people were called Cant - ware or Kentish- Men . Its metropolis was Cantwaraburh Canterbury on the R. Stour , in which was the famous Mynster built by St. Augustine ...
... famous Hengist , and corresponded with the modern county of Kent ; the people were called Cant - ware or Kentish- Men . Its metropolis was Cantwaraburh Canterbury on the R. Stour , in which was the famous Mynster built by St. Augustine ...
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... famous harbour of Portsmouth on the English Channel was called Portesmuth , a name which it is said to have obtained from one Porta , who with his two sons crossed over to Britain , and landed at this place , whence he seized upon the ...
... famous harbour of Portsmouth on the English Channel was called Portesmuth , a name which it is said to have obtained from one Porta , who with his two sons crossed over to Britain , and landed at this place , whence he seized upon the ...
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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.