Reading lessons, ed. by E. Hughes, Book 1Edward Hughes 1855 |
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... miles can be seen all around , embracing an area of twenty - seven thousand square miles . All these facts show us that the earth has a convex surface , that is , that it is curved , or bulges everywhere . 10. Let the earth's surface be ...
... miles can be seen all around , embracing an area of twenty - seven thousand square miles . All these facts show us that the earth has a convex surface , that is , that it is curved , or bulges everywhere . 10. Let the earth's surface be ...
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... square miles . 8. The figure of the earth has also been deduced from pendulum experiments . Were the earth a perfect sphere , its attraction on bodies at its surface would be everywhere the same , and the velocities imparted to a weight ...
... square miles . 8. The figure of the earth has also been deduced from pendulum experiments . Were the earth a perfect sphere , its attraction on bodies at its surface would be everywhere the same , and the velocities imparted to a weight ...
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... square miles , and of this area the dry land occupies about 51,000,000 of square miles , and the ocean - waters about 145,500,000 . It has also been calculated that there is about two and a half times as much land in the eastern as in ...
... square miles , and of this area the dry land occupies about 51,000,000 of square miles , and the ocean - waters about 145,500,000 . It has also been calculated that there is about two and a half times as much land in the eastern as in ...
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... square miles , embracing the grand divisions of Europe , Asia , and Africa , each peculiar in its form and outline ... miles . Its greatest breadth , from North Cape to Cape Matapan , is about 2,400 miles . The area of its surface ...
... square miles , embracing the grand divisions of Europe , Asia , and Africa , each peculiar in its form and outline ... miles . Its greatest breadth , from North Cape to Cape Matapan , is about 2,400 miles . The area of its surface ...
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... miles ; it therefore enjoys a mile of coast- line for every 156 square miles of surface . The result of this is , that almost all the countries of Europe are open to communication with the ocean . And thus it is that the inhabitants of ...
... miles ; it therefore enjoys a mile of coast- line for every 156 square miles of surface . The result of this is , that almost all the countries of Europe are open to communication with the ocean . And thus it is that the inhabitants of ...
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Page 256 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 14 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 251 - 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 fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 256 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 17 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 14 - This BOOKS can do; - nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise, Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise: Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone: Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects what they show to kings.
Page 358 - When night, with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes. That sacred gloom, those fires divine, So grand, so countless. Lord! are thine.
Page 257 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 110 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 104 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...