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... naturally claims the principal attention of the being whose residence it is . To the Earth therefore we return . It has been already said that our Globe , besides its annual course round the Sun , revolves also on one of its own ...
... naturally claims the principal attention of the being whose residence it is . To the Earth therefore we return . It has been already said that our Globe , besides its annual course round the Sun , revolves also on one of its own ...
Pagina 20
... natural appearances of the sur- face are the subject of Physical Geography , which considers the earth as composed of land and water , and points out the distribution of both , of the land into Continents , Peninsulas , and Islands ...
... natural appearances of the sur- face are the subject of Physical Geography , which considers the earth as composed of land and water , and points out the distribution of both , of the land into Continents , Peninsulas , and Islands ...
Pagina 23
... natural subdivisions of the Earth's surface furnishes a principle of universal application , or that it will form the basis of a geographical ar- rangement for every part of the world . The vast sandy desert that occupies so much of the ...
... natural subdivisions of the Earth's surface furnishes a principle of universal application , or that it will form the basis of a geographical ar- rangement for every part of the world . The vast sandy desert that occupies so much of the ...
Pagina 27
... natural character , or assured per- The contents and limits of these civil divisions , which time and conquest are perpetually altering , it is no doubt important to know well , on account of their connection both with the history of ...
... natural character , or assured per- The contents and limits of these civil divisions , which time and conquest are perpetually altering , it is no doubt important to know well , on account of their connection both with the history of ...
Pagina 28
... natural , civil , political , and commercial history , —all that can serve to paint them to the imagination , and distinguish them from one another by something more than the name , should find a place either in the text - book itself ...
... natural , civil , political , and commercial history , —all that can serve to paint them to the imagination , and distinguish them from one another by something more than the name , should find a place either in the text - book itself ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 94 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! 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...
Pagina 110 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring or shady grove or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath That wash thy hallowed feet and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old.
Pagina 81 - The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Pagina 72 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Pagina 73 - 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.
Pagina 34 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Pagina 105 - 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'
Pagina 83 - 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.
Pagina 48 - Alpheum fama est hue Elidis amnem Occultas egisse vias subter mare : qui nunc Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis.
Pagina 21 - 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.