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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... Dutch Republic into an independent sovereignty for the House of Orange , to the utter confusion and disappointment of the Louvestein faction , is one which could not have been anticipated at the era of the French revolution . The Dutch ...
... Dutch Republic into an independent sovereignty for the House of Orange , to the utter confusion and disappointment of the Louvestein faction , is one which could not have been anticipated at the era of the French revolution . The Dutch ...
Σελίδα 36
... Dutch applied themselves with vigour to the arts of commerce , and soon attained a considerable share of wealth and power . Religious disputes , however , which had first induced the inhabitants of the provinces to assert their freedom ...
... Dutch applied themselves with vigour to the arts of commerce , and soon attained a considerable share of wealth and power . Religious disputes , however , which had first induced the inhabitants of the provinces to assert their freedom ...
Σελίδα 37
... 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 . But maritime ...
... 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 . But maritime ...
Σελίδα 38
... Dutch harbours ; while to complete the degradation of the unfortunate Hollanders , a new constitution was given them by the emperor Napoleon , on the 15th of March 1805 , and on the 24th of May 1806 his brother Louis Napoleon was ...
... Dutch harbours ; while to complete the degradation of the unfortunate Hollanders , a new constitution was given them by the emperor Napoleon , on the 15th of March 1805 , and on the 24th of May 1806 his brother Louis Napoleon was ...
Σελίδα 39
... Dutch to shake off their odious allegiance to France ; the movement was general and decisive , though bloodless ; the French were driven out of the country , and on the 2d of December 1813 , the Stadtholder William , who had been ...
... Dutch to shake off their odious allegiance to France ; the movement was general and decisive , though bloodless ; the French were driven out of the country , and on the 2d of December 1813 , the Stadtholder William , who had been ...
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Σελίδα 432 - In the upper zone, which is 8 or 10 miles in breadth, vegetation entirely disappears. The surface is, for the most part, flat and even, presenting a dreary expanse of snow and ice. In the midst of this desert, the lofty summit of the mountain is descried at a distance, rearing its tremendous head above the surrounding snows, and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent up this part is toilsome and hazardous. From the base the mountain rises, like a pyramid, by an acclivity nearly equal on all sides,...