The New Pocket Cyclopædia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically Arranged;: With Lists of Select Books on Every Important Subject of Learning and Science; Designed for the Higher Classes in Schools, and for Young Persons in GeneralSherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813 - 645 pagini |
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... Roman , Celtic or Druid , and the Northern Nations .... 56 PART II . - GEOGRAPHY . CHAP . I. PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHY II . GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS III . EUROPE 76 JV . ASIA 83 2008 74 79 CHAP . V. AFRICA VI . AMERICA ...... VII .
... Roman , Celtic or Druid , and the Northern Nations .... 56 PART II . - GEOGRAPHY . CHAP . I. PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHY II . GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS III . EUROPE 76 JV . ASIA 83 2008 74 79 CHAP . V. AFRICA VI . AMERICA ...... VII .
Pagina xii
... Roman Empire CHAP . II . MODERN HISTORY .... 141 143 158 ........ 176-220 Sect . 1. England ......... 176 $ i . Before the time of the Saxons .. 176 ii . The Saxon Line ............... . 178 iii . The Danish Line .... 189 iv . The ...
... Roman Empire CHAP . II . MODERN HISTORY .... 141 143 158 ........ 176-220 Sect . 1. England ......... 176 $ i . Before the time of the Saxons .. 176 ii . The Saxon Line ............... . 178 iii . The Danish Line .... 189 iv . The ...
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... Roman literature ; the ingenious and the fashionable have imported occasional supplies of French , Spanish , Italian , and German words , gleaned during their foreign excursions : and the connexions which we maintain , through the ...
... Roman literature ; the ingenious and the fashionable have imported occasional supplies of French , Spanish , Italian , and German words , gleaned during their foreign excursions : and the connexions which we maintain , through the ...
Pagina 44
... Roman were , Andronicus , Ennius , Plautus , and Terence . 3. The Theatre among the Romans , was a large semi- circular building , with long porticoes , covered galleries , and walks planted with trees , in which the people amused ...
... Roman were , Andronicus , Ennius , Plautus , and Terence . 3. The Theatre among the Romans , was a large semi- circular building , with long porticoes , covered galleries , and walks planted with trees , in which the people amused ...
Pagina 47
... . 8vo . Irving's Elements of Composition , 12mo . a very useful book for young persons . Scraggs on Composition , 12mo . " Enfield's Speaker , Approved Translations of select Greek and Roman Writers . I. BOOKS ON RHETORIC . 47.
... . 8vo . Irving's Elements of Composition , 12mo . a very useful book for young persons . Scraggs on Composition , 12mo . " Enfield's Speaker , Approved Translations of select Greek and Roman Writers . I. BOOKS ON RHETORIC . 47.
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Pagina 29 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Pagina 516 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Pagina 40 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pagina 76 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Pagina 28 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Pagina 553 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Pagina 22 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Pagina 26 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Pagina 24 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Pagina 376 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...