A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Τόμος 2A. Fullarton and Company, 1832 |
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... hands in herding the cattle during the summer , while the winter offers little opportunity for out - door work . Kasthofer , in a very recent work on the rural economy of Switzerland , also mentions the non - application or injudicious ...
... hands in herding the cattle during the summer , while the winter offers little opportunity for out - door work . Kasthofer , in a very recent work on the rural economy of Switzerland , also mentions the non - application or injudicious ...
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... hands of the people ; every male above 20 years of age is a member of the general assembly , which is held once a year to choose the officers of the executive department . The revenue is small , there being almost no taxes , and little ...
... hands of the people ; every male above 20 years of age is a member of the general assembly , which is held once a year to choose the officers of the executive department . The revenue is small , there being almost no taxes , and little ...
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... hands of Tell , contains 1560 inhabitants . - Gersau , once an independent republic , the smallest in Europe , contains 160 houses , and 1294 inhabitants . CHAP . IX . - THE CANTON OF UNDERWALDEN . THIS is one of the finest Alpine ...
... hands of Tell , contains 1560 inhabitants . - Gersau , once an independent republic , the smallest in Europe , contains 160 houses , and 1294 inhabitants . CHAP . IX . - THE CANTON OF UNDERWALDEN . THIS is one of the finest Alpine ...
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... hands of the exe- cutioner , and to meet the reward which such a servant of such a prince deserved ; the suspicion and hatred of a master for whom he had sacrificed honour and humanity . Duke of Requesenes - Pacification of Ghent . ] He ...
... hands of the exe- cutioner , and to meet the reward which such a servant of such a prince deserved ; the suspicion and hatred of a master for whom he had sacrificed honour and humanity . Duke of Requesenes - Pacification of Ghent . ] He ...
Σελίδα 37
... hands of the Dutch merchants , who now almost exclusively furnished Europe with the rich productions of the East ; and the United States began to be ranked among the leading nations of Europe , and to assert their station accordingly ...
... hands of the Dutch merchants , who now almost exclusively furnished Europe with the rich productions of the East ; and the United States began to be ranked among the leading nations of Europe , and to assert their station accordingly ...
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Σελίδα 413 - Son of God, Begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made...
Σελίδα 423 - Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection • all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free...
Σελίδα 8 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Σελίδα 413 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Σελίδα 202 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Σελίδα 413 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets.
Σελίδα 413 - And He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Σελίδα 189 - ... The truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Σελίδα 457 - Both sea and land looked dark and confused, as if only emerging from their original chaos ; and light and darkness seemed still undivided, till the morning by degrees advancing, completed the separation. The stars are extinguished, and the shades disappear.
Σελίδα 457 - Deserta, or the frigid zone of /r'.tna, is the first object that calls your attention. It is marked out by a circle of snow and ice, which extends on all sides to the distance of about eight miles. In the centre of this circle, the great crater of the...