Key to Pelton's New and Improved Series of Outline Mapos: Containing All the Important Geographical Names in the Known World ... Arranged in Verse for Musical Recitations : to which is Added a Brief Description of the Present State of the World ...Sower & Barnes, 1855 - 240 Seiten |
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Seite 156 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...
Seite 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Seite 145 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Seite 125 - God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Seite 38 - In defining accurately zones of climate, the astronomical lines of the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and the Arctic and Antarctic circles are practically useless ; because of the divergence of the isothermal lines from the parallels of latitude.
Seite 137 - There are everywhere apertures in this limestone, through which, the waters of the rivers sink into the earth. The large rivers of Kentucky, for this reason, are more diminished during the dry season than those of any part of the United States, and the small streams entirely disappear.
Seite 4 - The atmosphere, the ocean and the rivers, are constantly acting upon the solid crust, wearing it down into minute particles. These particles are carried down into the bed of the sea, and are there reconsolidated into new strata. An internal igneous process is also forcing up, at intervals of time, and also at different localities, masses of crystalline rock, which tend to elevate certain portions of the earth's surface, and thus compensate for the levelling agencies of the ocean and atmosphere. 18....
Seite 15 - The North Temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, and the South Temperate, between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle.
Seite 141 - CITY, the capital, is on Missouri River, near the centre of the state. St. Louis, the largest and most commercial town, is situated on the Mississippi, 18 miles below the mouth of the Missouri, and promises to become one of the greatest inland cities in the United States. Questions. — 1. What is said of Missouri ? 2. Its productions and prairies 7 3.
Seite 35 - In some portions of the world rain is entirely unknown, or occurs so seldom as to be quite a phenomenon., (The rainless regions of the New World comprise portions of California and Guatemala, the Mexican table-land, and the coast line of Peru?) (Those of the Old World comprehend an immense territory, stretching from Morocco, through the Sahara, a part of Egypt, Arabia, and Persia, into Beloochistan, with another great zone, commencing north of the Hindoo-Koosh and Himalayas, including the table-land...