Elements of Physical and Classical GeographyW. Blackwood & Son, 1854 - 192 páginas |
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... light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month at the mean distance of 237,000 miles . If the plane of the 2 1 Leverrier and Adams . See Appendix , Note A. at the end of the Introduction . " Learners are apt to boggle at the ...
... light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month at the mean distance of 237,000 miles . If the plane of the 2 1 Leverrier and Adams . See Appendix , Note A. at the end of the Introduction . " Learners are apt to boggle at the ...
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... term be- tween the greatest and the least . 1 Total , when the moon was nearest to the earth , and annular , when she was farthest . 2 See Appendix . Note B. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than xii INTRODUCTION .
... term be- tween the greatest and the least . 1 Total , when the moon was nearest to the earth , and annular , when she was farthest . 2 See Appendix . Note B. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than xii INTRODUCTION .
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James Pillans. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than a small portion of the Earth's surface , and that only for a short space of time . But besides the eight Planets named , reckoning the Earth as one of them , there are ...
James Pillans. the Sun's light by her projected shadow from more than a small portion of the Earth's surface , and that only for a short space of time . But besides the eight Planets named , reckoning the Earth as one of them , there are ...
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... light ) are called fixed stars , because they never change their relative positions , that is , their apparent angu- lar distances from one another . It is thus they are distinguished from the planets , ( λavytai , wanderers , from ...
... light ) are called fixed stars , because they never change their relative positions , that is , their apparent angu- lar distances from one another . It is thus they are distinguished from the planets , ( λavytai , wanderers , from ...
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... light and heat to systems inhabited like ours by sentient and intelli- gent beings : nor is it possible for the imagination to assign a limit in any direction to the number and extent of such systems . It is thus the human mind raises ...
... light and heat to systems inhabited like ours by sentient and intelli- gent beings : nor is it possible for the imagination to assign a limit in any direction to the number and extent of such systems . It is thus the human mind raises ...
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Aegean aequore AETOLIA allusion Alps amne ancient aphelion aquas aquis atque Augustus axis basin birth-place Boeotia Britain Caesar called capital caput CARIA Cilicia classical coast colony comprehend course Danube diameter Earth eastward Egypt embouchure epithet famed farther Gallic Gaul geography globe Gordium GRAECIA Greece Greek Haec Hannibal hence hills Hinc illa Insula inter island Italy Jupiter lake Livy Lucan magna main river mare mean distance Mediterranean miles modern Mons Moon mountains mouth Nile northern numerous nunc orbit Ovid Peloponnesus Peninsula perihelion Pindus planets poets Pontus Portus provinces quae Quid quod quoque Rhine rocks Roman Rome shore Sicania side Silius Italicus Sinus solar star stood Strabo stream Strymon surface Syria Tacitus tellus Temple terra Thermodon Thessaly tibi tion town tribes tributary undas undis Uranus urbes Virgil
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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.