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... pass the Crimea , Sarmatia , Colehis , Arme- nia , Asia ( Minor ) ; then traverse Syria , Palestine , Arabia , and Egypt ; and proceed along the northern coast of Africa , through the territory of Cyrene , Carthage , Numidia , and ...
... pass the Crimea , Sarmatia , Colehis , Arme- nia , Asia ( Minor ) ; then traverse Syria , Palestine , Arabia , and Egypt ; and proceed along the northern coast of Africa , through the territory of Cyrene , Carthage , Numidia , and ...
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... passes through the foci and centre , and is terminated by the ellipse , is called the transverse or greater axis , and the straight line DG , which , passing through the centre , is perpendicular to the greater axis and terminated by ...
... passes through the foci and centre , and is terminated by the ellipse , is called the transverse or greater axis , and the straight line DG , which , passing through the centre , is perpendicular to the greater axis and terminated by ...
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... pass into this group from the preceding , and it is their last appearance . Here too , we find the first genera of the land tortoise , ( testudo ) ; with the marsh tortoise , ( emys ) ; and here also we meet with the most anomalous of ...
... pass into this group from the preceding , and it is their last appearance . Here too , we find the first genera of the land tortoise , ( testudo ) ; with the marsh tortoise , ( emys ) ; and here also we meet with the most anomalous of ...
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... passing the modern city of Murcia , flows through the Campus Spartarius , a plain so called from its abounding in spartum ( esparto ) , a reed much used by the ancients for the cordage of ships , and various economical purposes.7 6 ...
... passing the modern city of Murcia , flows through the Campus Spartarius , a plain so called from its abounding in spartum ( esparto ) , a reed much used by the ancients for the cordage of ships , and various economical purposes.7 6 ...
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... passes the city of the Seduni , now Sitten or Sion , and Octodūrus , Martigny . Then , forcing its way through the gorge of St. Maurice , it expands into Lacus Lemānus , and , having deposited * In the pronunciation of French words , it ...
... passes the city of the Seduni , now Sitten or Sion , and Octodūrus , Martigny . Then , forcing its way through the gorge of St. Maurice , it expands into Lacus Lemānus , and , having deposited * In the pronunciation of French words , it ...
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Page 118 - Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 82 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Page 11 - RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq.
Page 92 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Page 14 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. By AGNES STRICKLAND.
Page 83 - Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Page 184 - Where erst was thickest fight, the angelic throng, And left large field, unsafe within the wind Of such commotion; such as, to set forth Great things by small, if, Nature's concord broke, Among the constellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.
Page 82 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 62 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page xxvi - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.