Elements of useful knowledge, in geography, history, and other sciencesJ. Allbut, 1809 - 120 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 51
... Months , tra- velling nearly as fast again as the Earth . It is so near the Sun , that its Heat is sufficient to make Water boil . It some- times comes between us and the Sun , when it appears like a little black Spot . VENUS . 12 Q ...
... Months , tra- velling nearly as fast again as the Earth . It is so near the Sun , that its Heat is sufficient to make Water boil . It some- times comes between us and the Sun , when it appears like a little black Spot . VENUS . 12 Q ...
Σελίδα 52
... Months and a half : it turns round also upon its own Axis in twenty - three Hours and a half , which gives it a Day and Night something less than ours . Venus is the brightest of all the heavenly Bo- dies : It is sometimes a Morning and ...
... Months and a half : it turns round also upon its own Axis in twenty - three Hours and a half , which gives it a Day and Night something less than ours . Venus is the brightest of all the heavenly Bo- dies : It is sometimes a Morning and ...
Σελίδα 53
... Months in extreme Cold and Darkness , while the other Part would be scorched with Heat , and wearied out with continual Light . 16 Q. What Changes are effected by the annual or yearly Revolution of the Earth ? A. In the Course of the ...
... Months in extreme Cold and Darkness , while the other Part would be scorched with Heat , and wearied out with continual Light . 16 Q. What Changes are effected by the annual or yearly Revolution of the Earth ? A. In the Course of the ...
Σελίδα 56
... from the Sun. 25 Q. What is the Situation of the Moon ? A. It is a constant Attendant on our Earth , revolves round it every Month , and in that Space of Time shews its various Appearances of new , horned , full , & c . Being the nearest ...
... from the Sun. 25 Q. What is the Situation of the Moon ? A. It is a constant Attendant on our Earth , revolves round it every Month , and in that Space of Time shews its various Appearances of new , horned , full , & c . Being the nearest ...
Σελίδα 92
... Month 52 Weeks 1 Year 12 Months 1 Year 365 Days and 6 Hours make 1 Solar Year , or is the Space of Time the Earth takes in performing its Revolution round the Sun. 4 Q. When does our Year begin ? A. On the 1st of January , called New ...
... Month 52 Weeks 1 Year 12 Months 1 Year 365 Days and 6 Hours make 1 Solar Year , or is the Space of Time the Earth takes in performing its Revolution round the Sun. 4 Q. When does our Year begin ? A. On the 1st of January , called New ...
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Africa ALLBUT Appearance Apple Arabia Asia Atlantic Ocean Attraction Bay of Biscay Birth of Christ called capital Cities Cause Ciphers Clouds Colour contain Country distinguished diurnal diurnal Revolution Dividend Divisions Divisor East Indies Eclipse Egypt Engraved for Elements Europe Figure Fire fixed Stars four Quarters France Frigid Zone Georgium Sidus Globe greater Number Heat heavenly Bo Heavens History divided Hours hundred Miles Inhabitants Ireland Islands Isthmus Jupiter KNOWLEDGE Land Love Maps Millions Mogul Empire Moon Motion Mountains Multiplier Name the capital Nations Nature nitrous Vapours North America Noun Number Ocean Orbit round Participle Petersburgh Place Planets pluperfect Poland Pole principal Rain rarefied remarkable Event Revolution round Rivers round the Sun Russia shew Sicily Signs Solar System South Spain Subtraction Tartary Teneriff Tense Thing remarkable thou three hundred tion tures turns round twelve Units Venus Verb Vowels Water West World is drawn
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Σελίδα 83 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes =± 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month...
Σελίδα 60 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Σελίδα 65 - When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him...
Σελίδα 37 - Plantations, 4 Connecticut, 5 New York, 6 New Jersey, 7 Pennsylvania, 8 Delaware, 9 Maryland, 10 Virginia, 11 North Carolina, 12 South Carolina, 13 Georgia. It is to be noticed that this is the order in which the delegates signed the original " Articles of Confederation," and is the geographical order of the colonies from north to south.
Σελίδα 87 - Sun is a space of 28 years, in which time the days of the month return again to the same days of the week...
Σελίδα 106 - RULE. Place the less number under the greater; units under units, tens under tens, SfC.
Σελίδα 93 - ... Quotation, or a single or double comma turned, (') or ("), is put at the beginning of speeches, or such lines as are extracted out of other authors. An asterisk and...
Σελίδα 101 - The prepositions are words set before nouns or pronouns, to express the relations of persons, places and things to each other, as Jag bar ga till honom, I ought to go to him.
Σελίδα 100 - A participle is a word derived from a verb and partaking of the nature of a verb and of an adjective or a noun, or, in some instances, of an adverb.
Σελίδα 100 - AN ADVERB is a part of Speech joined to a Verb, an Adjective, a Participle, and sometimes to another Adverb, to express the quality or circumstance of it; as, " He reads well; a truly good man ; he is secretly plotting; he writes very correctly.