The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, المجلد 8George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... fish , and vegetables may be had cheaply in abundance . The town is re- sorted to by invalids on account of its delightful climate . The mean temperature is about 68 ° F. , and the difference between the hottest and coldest months ...
... fish , and vegetables may be had cheaply in abundance . The town is re- sorted to by invalids on account of its delightful climate . The mean temperature is about 68 ° F. , and the difference between the hottest and coldest months ...
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... fish on the shores , and which rise in Minas basin 40 feet , and in Chignecto channel 60 feet . The bay contains Grand Me- nan and Long islands , and receives the rivers St. John and St. Croix . FÜNEN ( Dan . Fyen ) , an island of ...
... fish on the shores , and which rise in Minas basin 40 feet , and in Chignecto channel 60 feet . The bay contains Grand Me- nan and Long islands , and receives the rivers St. John and St. Croix . FÜNEN ( Dan . Fyen ) , an island of ...
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... fish , insects , and aquatic grasses ; the flesh is considered excel- lent eating . The gadwall is a good diver and swimmer , and walks uncommonly well ; it is a rapid flier , with a whistling noise of the wings ; in its excursions on ...
... fish , insects , and aquatic grasses ; the flesh is considered excel- lent eating . The gadwall is a good diver and swimmer , and walks uncommonly well ; it is a rapid flier , with a whistling noise of the wings ; in its excursions on ...
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... fish . Among the wild animals are the wolf , fox , stag , hare , lynx , and bear , the wild goose , heron , swan , eagle , and vulture . The chief mineral productions are iron , which is found along the whole line of the Carpathians ...
... fish . Among the wild animals are the wolf , fox , stag , hare , lynx , and bear , the wild goose , heron , swan , eagle , and vulture . The chief mineral productions are iron , which is found along the whole line of the Carpathians ...
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... Fishing and navigation form a principal part of the industry of the people , who also man- ufacture linen for domestic use . The inhabi- tants , called Gallegos , are a hardy and robust people , and speak a dialect greatly differing ...
... Fishing and navigation form a principal part of the industry of the people , who also man- ufacture linen for domestic use . The inhabi- tants , called Gallegos , are a hardy and robust people , and speak a dialect greatly differing ...
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الصفحة 70 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
الصفحة 237 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
الصفحة 235 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
الصفحة 58 - County as a member of the convention to revise the constitution of the State.
الصفحة 170 - the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in my life.
الصفحة 264 - Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it...
الصفحة 237 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent.
الصفحة 140 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
الصفحة 237 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
الصفحة 242 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution.