The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Τόμος 11Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... surface perhaps it may be equal to Great Bri- tain , or at least not much less . Tierra del Fuego consists of one large island , four others of moderate extent , and a great number of smaller islands and rocks . The larger island forms ...
... surface perhaps it may be equal to Great Bri- tain , or at least not much less . Tierra del Fuego consists of one large island , four others of moderate extent , and a great number of smaller islands and rocks . The larger island forms ...
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... surface of the walls , floors , The space requiring fumigation amounted to nearly ceilings , & c . , was about 1,200,000 square feet . This surface was principally stone and brick , most of which had been lime - washed . A quantity of ...
... surface of the walls , floors , The space requiring fumigation amounted to nearly ceilings , & c . , was about 1,200,000 square feet . This surface was principally stone and brick , most of which had been lime - washed . A quantity of ...
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... surface is a level , varied by hills in the southern districts , but they never rise above 500 feet . The north - east of the island is deeply indented with bays of the Kattegat , particularly the Odense fiord , ' and is more uni- form ...
... surface is a level , varied by hills in the southern districts , but they never rise above 500 feet . The north - east of the island is deeply indented with bays of the Kattegat , particularly the Odense fiord , ' and is more uni- form ...
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... surface ( the settlement on La Floriana being 1000 feet above the level of the sea ) , and partly to the cold current which sets along the south- south - western side of the group to the north - north - west . The dry season occurs in ...
... surface ( the settlement on La Floriana being 1000 feet above the level of the sea ) , and partly to the cold current which sets along the south- south - western side of the group to the north - north - west . The dry season occurs in ...
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... surface , which they imagined had arisen from some earthly taint consequent on the proximity of the moon , being now rendered distinctly visible , taught Galilei that the surface of the moon was irregular and uneven , having mountains ...
... surface , which they imagined had arisen from some earthly taint consequent on the proximity of the moon , being now rendered distinctly visible , taught Galilei that the surface of the moon was irregular and uneven , having mountains ...
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Σελίδα 212 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
Σελίδα 212 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Σελίδα 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Σελίδα 125 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Σελίδα 157 - An Act for the security of Her " Majesty's Person and Government, and of the " succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the
Σελίδα 168 - Charlotte, in which are equally involved the happiness of your royal highness in your parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the state, that the intercourse between her royal highness the princess of Wales, and her royal highness the princess Charlotte, should continue to be subject to regulation and restraint.
Σελίδα 127 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Σελίδα 289 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 159 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Σελίδα 212 - A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity may be considered as a very essential part of the history of the Roman empire. While that great body was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new...