Climate, Weather, and Disease: Being a Sketch of the Opinions of the Most Celebrated Antient and Modern WritersJ. Churchill, 1855 - 144 páginas |
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... Thessaly - Tempe- Pindus - Sir Walter Scott - Boeotia - boundaries of Lake Copais Ciphissus - Euboea - Katavothra - Mount Helicon -- the flute reed -effect of climate in moulding the character of the inhabitants- Horace on the thick air ...
... Thessaly - Tempe- Pindus - Sir Walter Scott - Boeotia - boundaries of Lake Copais Ciphissus - Euboea - Katavothra - Mount Helicon -- the flute reed -effect of climate in moulding the character of the inhabitants- Horace on the thick air ...
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... Thessaly , with its broad and fruitful plains , its cities sheltered by the enclosing hills , accessible only on the northern side through the celebrated vale of Tempe , stands in strong contrast to the neighbouring province of Epirus ...
... Thessaly , with its broad and fruitful plains , its cities sheltered by the enclosing hills , accessible only on the northern side through the celebrated vale of Tempe , stands in strong contrast to the neighbouring province of Epirus ...
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... Thessaly and Boeotia to Arcadia , where the physical characters of the country preclude the possi- bility of agriculture , and force the inhabitants to lead a pastoral Horace , Ep . ii . 1 , 244 . * life , which necessarily exposed them ...
... Thessaly and Boeotia to Arcadia , where the physical characters of the country preclude the possi- bility of agriculture , and force the inhabitants to lead a pastoral Horace , Ep . ii . 1 , 244 . * life , which necessarily exposed them ...
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... Thessaly , was the culminating point of antient Greece , being 9700 feet above the level of the sea , and scarcely ever free from snow . Mount Guiona , since the northern part of Greece has been added to Turkey , is the highest mountain ...
... Thessaly , was the culminating point of antient Greece , being 9700 feet above the level of the sea , and scarcely ever free from snow . Mount Guiona , since the northern part of Greece has been added to Turkey , is the highest mountain ...
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... Thessaly have tutored the shepherd and the hunter in everything that gives prowess in bodily vigour . The thin , bright , elastic air of Attica has smiled upon the brains and nerves of the Athenian , and the mind , that in the ...
... Thessaly have tutored the shepherd and the hunter in everything that gives prowess in bodily vigour . The thin , bright , elastic air of Attica has smiled upon the brains and nerves of the Athenian , and the mind , that in the ...
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afforded amount animal antient apoplexy Athens atmosphere attacked autumn average barometer blood Boeotia calm Cannington cause character characterised cholera climate cloth cold cultivation diarrhoea difference disease districts drought dysentery Eacus effect epidemic epistaxis erysipelas Etesian winds excess exhalations fact fatal favourable Fcap fièvres Foolscap 8vo frequently Greece hæmorrhage heat Hippocrates HOSPITAL influence inhabitants instance land London mean measles Medical Medicine meteorological moist moisture monsoon months mortality mountains nature northerly number of deaths observed ozone palæstra Paraplegia Patra peculiar Pestilential Constitution phenomena phthisis PHYSICIAN plague poison Post 8vo PRACTICAL prevailed produce puerperal fever raged rain rainy remarkable rendered Rhazes seasons Second Edition seems small-pox snow soil south wind southerly wind spring summer SURGEON sweating sickness Table temperature Thasos thermometer Thessaly took place town treatise TREATMENT typhus vegetable matter warm weather week whilst winter δὲ καὶ Περὶ ὕδατα
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Página 92 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!