The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the World, Том 1W.R. M'Phun, 1872 - Всего страниц: 1146 |
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... Italian , Indian , American , and Australian sketches . Nor must they omit to notice the late Mr Sargent's large ... Italy , are amply noticed . Due attention is also paid to altered political features in other parts of the world ...
... Italian , Indian , American , and Australian sketches . Nor must they omit to notice the late Mr Sargent's large ... Italy , are amply noticed . Due attention is also paid to altered political features in other parts of the world ...
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... ITALY , . Kingdom of Italy , CHAPTER IV . EUROPEAN TURKEY , Roumelia , Thessaly , SECTION IL CENTRAL EUROPE . CHAPTER I. Albania , Montenegro , Bosnia , Herzegovina , FRANCE , Servia , 457 Wallachia , . 1. Northern France , • 467 ...
... ITALY , . Kingdom of Italy , CHAPTER IV . EUROPEAN TURKEY , Roumelia , Thessaly , SECTION IL CENTRAL EUROPE . CHAPTER I. Albania , Montenegro , Bosnia , Herzegovina , FRANCE , Servia , 457 Wallachia , . 1. Northern France , • 467 ...
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... Italy , Sicily , and Spain ; and thus they were in the way of acquiring information respecting the expeditions and discoveries of the Phoenician colonists . But it is remarkable , that at a later date — namely , 484 B. C. — the age of ...
... Italy , Sicily , and Spain ; and thus they were in the way of acquiring information respecting the expeditions and discoveries of the Phoenician colonists . But it is remarkable , that at a later date — namely , 484 B. C. — the age of ...
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... Italy , where the women wore it in necklaces as an amulet . The trade might have existed for centuries , and this seems intimated by the old tradition of a sacred road across the Alps . Amber , a very costly article in early times , was ...
... Italy , where the women wore it in necklaces as an amulet . The trade might have existed for centuries , and this seems intimated by the old tradition of a sacred road across the Alps . Amber , a very costly article in early times , was ...
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... Italy , whether a square or a triangle . He represented the Pyrenees as running north and south ; thought the coasts of Spain and Gaul formed nearly a straight line ; and connected the Caspian with the Northern Ocean . Africa , he ...
... Italy , whether a square or a triangle . He represented the Pyrenees as running north and south ; thought the coasts of Spain and Gaul formed nearly a straight line ; and connected the Caspian with the Northern Ocean . Africa , he ...
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Стр. 63 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Стр. 104 - I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Стр. 36 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Стр. 104 - At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being...
Стр. 103 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Стр. 48 - And never more, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near...
Стр. 241 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most high have bended it.
Стр. 22 - ... its haughty winds ; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep waters ; or if any have done so, they have merely kept along its coasts, fearful of departing from them. The waves of this ocean, although they roll as high as mountains, yet maintain themselves without breaking ; for if they broke, it would be impossible for ship to plough them...
Стр. 42 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Стр. 63 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...