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 - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 412 pages |
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... continued through the earth , each of its extremi- ties would touch the feet of one of the parties . Long after the learned in Europe were convinced of the glob- ular form of the earth , there were many of them who doubted the ...
... continued through the earth , each of its extremi- ties would touch the feet of one of the parties . Long after the learned in Europe were convinced of the glob- ular form of the earth , there were many of them who doubted the ...
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... continued to employ themselves through the night . They lightened their labor by songs , one at least of which was evidently composed extempore ; for Park himself was the subject of it . It was sung in a sweet and plaintive tone of ...
... continued to employ themselves through the night . They lightened their labor by songs , one at least of which was evidently composed extempore ; for Park himself was the subject of it . It was sung in a sweet and plaintive tone of ...
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... continued till the year 1640 ; and then reverted to the crown of Spain , in consequence of the revolution which placed John duke of Braganza upon the throne . - Bry- an Edwards . BRAIN , the soft substance within the skull . Mr ...
... continued till the year 1640 ; and then reverted to the crown of Spain , in consequence of the revolution which placed John duke of Braganza upon the throne . - Bry- an Edwards . BRAIN , the soft substance within the skull . Mr ...
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... continued till 829 , when Egbert having subdued the other petty sovereigns , uni- ted England under one government . In the year 1014 , the Danes subdued England ; and Swain , from Den- mark , was proclaimed king : the Saxons , however ...
... continued till 829 , when Egbert having subdued the other petty sovereigns , uni- ted England under one government . In the year 1014 , the Danes subdued England ; and Swain , from Den- mark , was proclaimed king : the Saxons , however ...
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... continued the siege till the latter end of September , 1669 : when the brave Venetian garrison made an honorable capitulation . During this siege , the longest that history records , the Venetians lost eighty thousand , and the Turks a ...
... continued the siege till the latter end of September , 1669 : when the brave Venetian garrison made an honorable capitulation . During this siege , the longest that history records , the Venetians lost eighty thousand , and the Turks a ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.