A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Volume 3A. Fullarton and Company, 1832 - Geography |
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... ENGLAND & WALES . Boundaries and Figure - Area , 47 . CHAP . I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND WALES , 48- Roman Invasion , 50 - Arrival of the Saxons , 52 - Egbert - Ethelwolf , 53 - Ethelbald and Ethelbert - Ethelred - Alfred the Great - Ed ...
... ENGLAND & WALES . Boundaries and Figure - Area , 47 . CHAP . I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND WALES , 48- Roman Invasion , 50 - Arrival of the Saxons , 52 - Egbert - Ethelwolf , 53 - Ethelbald and Ethelbert - Ethelred - Alfred the Great - Ed ...
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... England may be said to rank with the average of that of French and Austrian territory . This would have determined a population in the present age of perhaps 150 to the square mile , exclusive of Wales . But the average number of inhabi ...
... England may be said to rank with the average of that of French and Austrian territory . This would have determined a population in the present age of perhaps 150 to the square mile , exclusive of Wales . But the average number of inhabi ...
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... England had been placed successively in opposition to a confederacy of the other European powers , and had successfully resisted the fearful odds brought against them ; each nation had also added largely to its territorial possessions ...
... England had been placed successively in opposition to a confederacy of the other European powers , and had successfully resisted the fearful odds brought against them ; each nation had also added largely to its territorial possessions ...
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... England was not simply regal but political ; and that the maxim , quod Principi placeret , legis habet vigorem , was never a general maxim of the constitutional law of England . But though such was probably in early , as well as in ...
... England was not simply regal but political ; and that the maxim , quod Principi placeret , legis habet vigorem , was never a general maxim of the constitutional law of England . But though such was probably in early , as well as in ...
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... England — has been much debated , owing perhaps to the different acceptations in which the word parliament has been taken . Almost no kingdom has ever been governed without the aid of a council to direct the sovereign . If , therefore ...
... England — has been much debated , owing perhaps to the different acceptations in which the word parliament has been taken . Almost no kingdom has ever been governed without the aid of a council to direct the sovereign . If , therefore ...
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Page 165 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 235 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: And they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Page 367 - The cattle are milked in the mornings and evenings : the milk is excellent; but the quantity obtained from any one cow is by no means so great as in Europe. The Foulahs use the milk chiefly as an article of diet, and that, not until it is quite sour. The cream which it affords is very thick, and is converted into butter by stirring it violently in a large calabash. This butter, when melted over a gentle fire, and freed from impurities, is preserved in small earthen pots, and forms a part in most...
Page 346 - Blessing! blessing! Sons of your country! Sons of your country!' and returning quickly to the front of the body, in order to repeat the charge. While all this was going on, they closed in their right and left flanks, and surrounded the little body of Arab warriors so completely, as to give the compliment of welcoming them very much the appearance of a declaration of their contempt for their weakness.
Page 276 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Page 350 - Nyffee, of whom the men are considered the most expert weavers in Soudan, and the women ,the best spinners. The common imports are Goora nuts, brought from the borders of Ashantee; and coarse calico and woollen cloth, in small quantities, with brass and pewter dishes, and some few spices from Nyffee. The Arabs, from Tripoli and Ghadamis, bring unwrought silk, otto of roses, spices, and beads : slaves are both exported and imported.
Page 247 - Having thus obtained a sufficient number of common points of subdivision, we may next proceed to write the Greek text over the enchorial, in such a manner that the passages ascertained may all coincide as nearly as possible ; and it is obvious that the intermediate parts of each inscription will then stand very near to the corresponding passages of the other.
Page 94 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page 258 - Arabs then plunged into the stream, and, exerting all their strength to push down the remaining part, some openings were soon made, and the river broke through with irresistible violence. For some time it was like the rushing of a cataract. According to custom, the Kiaya Bey distributed a good sum of money, throwing it into the bed of the canal below, where a great many men and boys scrambled for it.
Page 246 - Unfortunately a considerable part of the first inscription is wanting : the beginning of the second, and the end of the third, are also mutilated ; so that...