Elements of Physical and Classical GeographyW. Blackwood & Son, 1854 - 192 páginas |
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Página iv
... less than I found it a pleasure , when I became myself the instruc- tor of others in the same class - room , to introduce the subject of Ancient Geography with similar explana- tions . I am aware that much has been done , in the course ...
... less than I found it a pleasure , when I became myself the instruc- tor of others in the same class - room , to introduce the subject of Ancient Geography with similar explana- tions . I am aware that much has been done , in the course ...
Página v
... of human knowledge ; and it is a process not less improving than it is delightful to incipient manhood . 1 Ovid . Metam . B. xv . 1. 4 . Influenced by these considerations , I have endea- voured , PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION . V.
... of human knowledge ; and it is a process not less improving than it is delightful to incipient manhood . 1 Ovid . Metam . B. xv . 1. 4 . Influenced by these considerations , I have endea- voured , PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION . V.
Página vii
... less familiar to every one who has a wish to raise himself above the mere drudgery of mechanical manipulation , or to escape the cramp- ing influences of official routine . AS MR KEITH JOHNSTON and THE PUBLISHERS have done me PREFACE TO ...
... less familiar to every one who has a wish to raise himself above the mere drudgery of mechanical manipulation , or to escape the cramp- ing influences of official routine . AS MR KEITH JOHNSTON and THE PUBLISHERS have done me PREFACE TO ...
Página ix
... in comprehending the planetary movements , to raise or depress one of them , so as to make an angle more or less acute where it crosses the other at the wire . planets have also a rotatory motion , each on its INTRODUCTION. ...
... in comprehending the planetary movements , to raise or depress one of them , so as to make an angle more or less acute where it crosses the other at the wire . planets have also a rotatory motion , each on its INTRODUCTION. ...
Página xiii
... less than many hundreds , of Comets ; concerning whose nature , uses , and courses , we are 1 At railway speed one might make the circuit of the globe Ceres , which is the largest of them , in a few hours . still very much in the dark ...
... less than many hundreds , of Comets ; concerning whose nature , uses , and courses , we are 1 At railway speed one might make the circuit of the globe Ceres , which is the largest of them , in a few hours . still very much in the dark ...
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AETOLIA Alps ancient appear axis banks basin battle body Britain Caesar called capital century circle classical coast colony connected continued course crossing described direction distance Earth east eastern empire English existence extends extremity fact fall farther feet flows Gaul geography give globe Greece Greek Haec hence hills interest island Italy Jupiter known lake land latter less light localities Mean Mediterranean mentioned miles Minor Moon mountains mouth nature nearly northern noted numerous observed orbit Ovid parallel pass passage Peninsula period Persian planets poets portion present provinces quae quod range remains remarkable rise river rocks Roman Rome round says shore side Sinus star stood stream surface Temple terra tion town trace tribes tributary undas whole
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Página 83 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Página 118 - Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair: now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Página 82 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Página 42 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 92 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Página 184 - Where erst was thickest fight, the angelic throng, And left large field, unsafe within the wind Of such commotion; such as, to set forth Great things by small, if, Nature's concord broke, Among the constellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.
Página 82 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 62 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 64 - They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands: amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turned; Till on those cursed engines...
Página xxvi - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.