The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles Chiefly Selected from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany, and Minerology : Arranged in Alphabetical OrderNathan Elliott of Catskill, and Websters and Skinners, of Albany, 1816 - 412 páginas |
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... According to Volney , the peasants of Syria , at this day , depend for a considerable part of their food on oak - acorns , which they gather up- on mount Lebanon ; for if they raise barley and wheat , the Arabs of the wilderness come in ...
... According to Volney , the peasants of Syria , at this day , depend for a considerable part of their food on oak - acorns , which they gather up- on mount Lebanon ; for if they raise barley and wheat , the Arabs of the wilderness come in ...
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... According to Labat and du Tetre , it grows to such a prodigious size , that out of one log of it they make a boat capable of carry- ing so many as forty men . This tree is also the only one , of those shores , which is never attacked by ...
... According to Labat and du Tetre , it grows to such a prodigious size , that out of one log of it they make a boat capable of carry- ing so many as forty men . This tree is also the only one , of those shores , which is never attacked by ...
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... according to Plutarch , to load twenty thousand mules , and five thousand camels . - Rollin , En- cyclopædia . ARCHIPELAGO , a part of the Mediterranean sea . The numerous islands in the Archipelago , several of which were famous for ...
... according to Plutarch , to load twenty thousand mules , and five thousand camels . - Rollin , En- cyclopædia . ARCHIPELAGO , a part of the Mediterranean sea . The numerous islands in the Archipelago , several of which were famous for ...
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... ( according to a late London Review ) only a narrow ter- ritory , about one degree of latitude . B. BAAL'S TEMPLE , a vast temple in the city of Babylon , erected to Belus , Bell or Baal , each name sig- nifying Lord , in the eastern ...
... ( according to a late London Review ) only a narrow ter- ritory , about one degree of latitude . B. BAAL'S TEMPLE , a vast temple in the city of Babylon , erected to Belus , Bell or Baal , each name sig- nifying Lord , in the eastern ...
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... according to the established laws of specific gravity , rise in the common atmos- phere . The first human being that adventured in this ærial navigation , was M. Pilatre de Rozier , a French- man , who rose in a large baloon from a ...
... according to the established laws of specific gravity , rise in the common atmos- phere . The first human being that adventured in this ærial navigation , was M. Pilatre de Rozier , a French- man , who rose in a large baloon from a ...
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Página 332 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Página 298 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 30 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Página 7 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream ; Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 150 - ... went immediately to the vast hall or palace of Odin, their god of war, who eternally kept open house for all such guests, where they were entertained at infinite tables, in perpetual feasts and mirth...
Página 32 - As soon as he had seated himself upon a mat by the threshold of his door, a young woman, his intended bride, brought a little water in a calabash, and kneeling down before him, desired him to wash his hands ; when he had done this, the girl, with a tear of joy sparkling in her eyes, drank the water, this being considered as the greatest proof she could possibly give him of her fidelity and attachment.
Página 68 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Página 348 - Siminoles, form the most striking picture of happiness in this life; joy, contentment, love, and friendship, without guile or affectation, seem inherent in them, or predominant in their vital principle, for it leaves them but with the last breath of life.
Página 243 - The inconveniency and difficulty of weighing those metals with exactness gave occasion to the institution of coins, of which the stamp, covering entirely both sides of the piece and sometimes the edges too, was supposed to ascertain not only the fineness, but the weight of the metal. Such coins, therefore, were received by tale as at present, without the trouble of weighing.