The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical OrderWebsters and Skinners, 1813 - 424 páginas |
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... century . In 1638 , one Beiland , a merchant of that city , having carried on a contraband trade , and being taken and examined by the prince of Orange , he profanely replied , that he was free to own , if to get any thing by trade it ...
... century . In 1638 , one Beiland , a merchant of that city , having carried on a contraband trade , and being taken and examined by the prince of Orange , he profanely replied , that he was free to own , if to get any thing by trade it ...
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... century , the western Roman empire was overrun and subdued by innumerable hordes of wandering shep- herds , called Goths , Vandals , and Huns , from the for- ests of Germany , north of the Danube . Each of these empires had been a ...
... century , the western Roman empire was overrun and subdued by innumerable hordes of wandering shep- herds , called Goths , Vandals , and Huns , from the for- ests of Germany , north of the Danube . Each of these empires had been a ...
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... century , that is , in 1621 , when it attracted considerable attention , particularly in France , where the celebrated Gassena observed it , and gave it the name which it now bears . It appeared with peculiar frequency in the course of ...
... century , that is , in 1621 , when it attracted considerable attention , particularly in France , where the celebrated Gassena observed it , and gave it the name which it now bears . It appeared with peculiar frequency in the course of ...
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... century ; perhaps , how- ever , it may have gained as much in some parts of its coasts as it has lost in others . BAMBARRA , a kingdom of Africa on the river Ni- ger . The land is fruitful , and highly cultivated ; the face of the ...
... century ; perhaps , how- ever , it may have gained as much in some parts of its coasts as it has lost in others . BAMBARRA , a kingdom of Africa on the river Ni- ger . The land is fruitful , and highly cultivated ; the face of the ...
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... century , has held the sceptre of Great Bri- tain , by the following title . Heary the Lion , duke of Saxony , had married a daughter of Henry II . of Eng- land . In the year 1180 , the duke having raised trou- bles in Germany , and ...
... century , has held the sceptre of Great Bri- tain , by the following title . Heary the Lion , duke of Saxony , had married a daughter of Henry II . of Eng- land . In the year 1180 , the duke having raised trou- bles in Germany , and ...
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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 4 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of ^earning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned," and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, and extending the Benefits...
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 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd 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 199 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Página 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Página 149 - ... from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea; scattered through a large body of sand or clay; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Página 30 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "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 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 387 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers ; Strew your Hero's way with flowers.