Key to Pelton's New and Improved Series of Outline Mapos: Containing All the Important Geographical Names in the Known World ... Arranged in Verse for Musical Recitations : to which is Added a Brief Description of the Present State of the World ...Sower & Barnes, 1855 - 240 pagina's |
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Pagina 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Pagina 46 - Still the same burning sun ! no cloud in heaven ! The hot air quivers, and the sultry mist Floats o'er the desert, with a show Of distant waters, mocking their distress.
Pagina 6 - rock" is applied only to the more compact and solid portions of the globe ; but geologically, it extends to every kind of formation — to the loose sands, clays, and gravels. Eighty beds of different kinds have been found at a depth of 500 yards. These are divided by M. Boue into six great leading classes or formations. 1st. The crystalline schistous formation, comprehending all the granitoid rocks. 2d. The primary sf ratifications, от the transition series, including the carboniferous formations.
Pagina 119 - The legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state, chosen by their Legislatures for 6 years.
Pagina 147 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Pagina 165 - ... 3. The Belgians are industrious, and noted for their skill in manufactures and agriculture. They excel in the arts, and have given rise to the school of painting called the Flemish. 4. The universities of Ghent, Liege, Louvain, and Brussels are well attended, and schools are generally established. BRUSSELS, the capital, on the River Senne, a branch of the Scheldt, is one of the finest cities in Europe, and is noted for its manufactures of lace and carpets. Ghent, at the confluence of the Lys...
Pagina 85 - Here our first parents were created ; here lived the patriarchs and prophets ;. here the ark rested alter the flood ; and here our Saviour was born, lived,' and died. 4. The Asiatics are noted for transmitting their customs, manners, and institutions, unaltered, from age to age ; and for centuries they have apparently made little advancement in the arts and sciences. 5. Asia is distinguished for the variety and value of its products. It supplies other countries with tea, produces the most fragrant...
Pagina 127 - FLOW on for ever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathom'd and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Pagina 15 - The North Temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, and the South Temperate, between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle.
Pagina 48 - In the polar regions, it is very common for extraordinary and unequal refraction to play fantastic tricks with terrestrial objects. Captain Scoresby gives the following details: — "June 19, 1822, the sun was very hot, and the coast suddenly appeared to come fourteen or eighteen miles nearer. Above distant ships their own image was seen inverted and magnified; in some cases it was very high above the ship, and then it was always smaller than the original. The image of a ship that was itself below...