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Pagina iii
... period which meets the introduction of steam power and machinery . The age of steam forms a strongly marked epoch , and will be fully considered in the Progress of Steam Navigation , Locomotion , etc. I trust that , though concise , the ...
... period which meets the introduction of steam power and machinery . The age of steam forms a strongly marked epoch , and will be fully considered in the Progress of Steam Navigation , Locomotion , etc. I trust that , though concise , the ...
Pagina 1
... PERIOD OF THE ROMAN INVASION . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION , AMONG Our Celtic ancestors some were worshippers of the Sun , others of the Moon ; some paid their adorations to Fire , others deified Mountains , Rivers , Lakes , and Trees . We ...
... PERIOD OF THE ROMAN INVASION . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION , AMONG Our Celtic ancestors some were worshippers of the Sun , others of the Moon ; some paid their adorations to Fire , others deified Mountains , Rivers , Lakes , and Trees . We ...
Pagina 2
Robert Kemp Philp. 2 INTRODUCTION . religious rites of the period , and were doubtless , in some instances , designed to exterminate heresies which were imagined to vex the gods of the dominant faith . It has been found that neither the ...
Robert Kemp Philp. 2 INTRODUCTION . religious rites of the period , and were doubtless , in some instances , designed to exterminate heresies which were imagined to vex the gods of the dominant faith . It has been found that neither the ...
Pagina 5
... period . It matters not whether we claim descent from the Celts , the Romans , the Saxons , the Danes , or the Normans , the same rude story supplies the foundation of the history of all mankind . In the times of which we write , the ...
... period . It matters not whether we claim descent from the Celts , the Romans , the Saxons , the Danes , or the Normans , the same rude story supplies the foundation of the history of all mankind . In the times of which we write , the ...
Pagina 9
... period of four hundred years . Speed , the historian , makes this mention of it : - “ The last , but much applauded opinion , for the possessing and peopling of this island , is that of Brute , generally held for the space of these last ...
... period of four hundred years . Speed , the historian , makes this mention of it : - “ The last , but much applauded opinion , for the possessing and peopling of this island , is that of Brute , generally held for the space of these last ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 19 - The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, And he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: The noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, And his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh ; He setteth his mind to finish his work, And watcheth to polish it perfectly...
Pagina 174 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer — what, therefore, must it be after a winter?
Pagina 307 - M. Philip Amadas, and M. Arthur Barlowe, who discovered part of the Countrey now called Virginia Anno 1584. Written by one of the said Captaines, and sent to sir Walter Ralegh knight, at whose charge and direction, the said voyage was set forth.
Pagina 176 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Pagina 19 - How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.
Pagina 333 - Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime power, to the dignity of the crown of Great Britain, and to the advancement of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown...
Pagina 196 - Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours, peace to happy BRITAIN brings, These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Pagina 308 - July, we found shole water, wher we smelt so sweet, and so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
Pagina 287 - The people in the Pinta saw a cane and a staff in the water, and took up another staff very curiously carved, and a small board, and great plenty of weeds were seen which seemed to have been recently torn from the rocks. Those of the Nina, besides similar signs of land, saw a branch of a thorn full of red berries, which seemed to have been newly torn from the tree. From all these indications the admiral was convinced that he now drew near to the land, and after the evening prayers...
Pagina 5 - For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement.