The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 2Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1898 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... district where the aurora is seen . The vertex , likewise , of the luminous arch is almost always found to be in or very near the magnetic meridian , and the boreal crown has its seat in the prolongation of the freely suspended needle ...
... district where the aurora is seen . The vertex , likewise , of the luminous arch is almost always found to be in or very near the magnetic meridian , and the boreal crown has its seat in the prolongation of the freely suspended needle ...
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... district , lying 300 or 400 m . from the e . coast , and nearly on the tropic of Capricorn . Its broad reaches might there have floated a steamer . Since then , it has been traced by Mr. Gregory through a solitary course into lake ...
... district , lying 300 or 400 m . from the e . coast , and nearly on the tropic of Capricorn . Its broad reaches might there have floated a steamer . Since then , it has been traced by Mr. Gregory through a solitary course into lake ...
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... district in central A. , extending from the southern shores in lat 33 ° s . , where it forms a coast - line of somewhat bold cliffs , to 18 ° s . lat . , and having for its eastern and western limits 124 ° and 138 ° e . long . , is ...
... district in central A. , extending from the southern shores in lat 33 ° s . , where it forms a coast - line of somewhat bold cliffs , to 18 ° s . lat . , and having for its eastern and western limits 124 ° and 138 ° e . long . , is ...
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... district ; but from the tropic of Capricorn to the sea , a large proportion was richly clad with verdure and well watered , with now and then a range of hills traversing it . The unaccounted - for absence of Burke and Wills produced ...
... district ; but from the tropic of Capricorn to the sea , a large proportion was richly clad with verdure and well watered , with now and then a range of hills traversing it . The unaccounted - for absence of Burke and Wills produced ...
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... districts s . of it on the Danube ; in Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia , and Galicia . Agriculture is not yet far advanced ; the pre- vaili ng system is still what is called the three - field system , introduced into Germany by Charlemagne ...
... districts s . of it on the Danube ; in Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia , and Galicia . Agriculture is not yet far advanced ; the pre- vaili ng system is still what is called the three - field system , introduced into Germany by Charlemagne ...
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Page 312 - The general law of the land is in favor of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial, still, as it is the law of the land, the court must pronounce judgment for it.
Page 414 - In 1836 he was elected professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
Page 26 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
Page 238 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 413 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras ; suggesting a System by which a School or Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Page 204 - Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the (Red) sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 412 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Page 426 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 361 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 199 - They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated it would hang down motionless, and this was often proved to be so.