The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical Order |
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... discovered by Christo- pher Columbus , in 1491 ; but took its name from Ame- ricus Vesputius , a Florentine , who , a few years after the discovery of this continent , having accompanied Ojeda , a Spanish adventurer hither , and drawing ...
... discovered by Christo- pher Columbus , in 1491 ; but took its name from Ame- ricus Vesputius , a Florentine , who , a few years after the discovery of this continent , having accompanied Ojeda , a Spanish adventurer hither , and drawing ...
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... discovered in the channel , it appeared in the form of a crescent or half- moon , stretching at the distance of seven miles from the extremity of one division to that of the other.- Though the English navy was infinitely inferior , in ...
... discovered in the channel , it appeared in the form of a crescent or half- moon , stretching at the distance of seven miles from the extremity of one division to that of the other.- Though the English navy was infinitely inferior , in ...
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... discovered in North America , is Baffin's bay , which lies between the 70th and 80th degrees of north latitude , and was dis- covered by Mr. Baffin , an Englishman , in the year 1632 , while he was attempting to find a north - west pas ...
... discovered in North America , is Baffin's bay , which lies between the 70th and 80th degrees of north latitude , and was dis- covered by Mr. Baffin , an Englishman , in the year 1632 , while he was attempting to find a north - west pas ...
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... discovered them . The air is pure and salubrious , and fruits of various kinds grow in luxurious plenty and perfection ; but the islands , being surrounded with rocks and shoals are very difficult of access . It was this cir- cumstance ...
... discovered them . The air is pure and salubrious , and fruits of various kinds grow in luxurious plenty and perfection ; but the islands , being surrounded with rocks and shoals are very difficult of access . It was this cir- cumstance ...
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... discovery of the Canary islands by the Carthageni- ans is a fact well attested . Pliny speaks of them as then destitute of inhabitants ; but containing the remains of buildings . In Plutarch's time ( about one hundred years after our ...
... discovery of the Canary islands by the Carthageni- ans is a fact well attested . Pliny speaks of them as then destitute of inhabitants ; but containing the remains of buildings . In Plutarch's time ( about one hundred years after our ...
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Page 332 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 4 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of ^earning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned," and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, and extending the Benefits...
Page 298 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Page 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 199 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Page 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 149 - ... from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea; scattered through a large body of sand or clay; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Page 30 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 68 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 387 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers ; Strew your Hero's way with flowers.