The African Repository, Volume 6American Colonization Society., 1831 |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 8
Page 322
... Ptolemy is the original of the term and has no known signification . The name certainly does not occur in Herodotus , Strabo , or probably any Greek writer prior to Pto- lemy ; nor is it , we believe , recognised in central , or indeed ...
... Ptolemy is the original of the term and has no known signification . The name certainly does not occur in Herodotus , Strabo , or probably any Greek writer prior to Pto- lemy ; nor is it , we believe , recognised in central , or indeed ...
Page 324
... Ptolemy with an error of ten degrees in the latitude of his own Observatory at Alexandria . Could Ptolemy have committed an error of this magnitude , on a point of such easy investigation , his fame as a geographer and astronomer must ...
... Ptolemy with an error of ten degrees in the latitude of his own Observatory at Alexandria . Could Ptolemy have committed an error of this magnitude , on a point of such easy investigation , his fame as a geographer and astronomer must ...
Page 325
... Ptolemy's first meridian , Sir Rufane will probably find on examination , that it can by no means effect that complete reform , which he imagines , in the longitudes of that geographer . To prove this , let us take a general view of the ...
... Ptolemy's first meridian , Sir Rufane will probably find on examination , that it can by no means effect that complete reform , which he imagines , in the longitudes of that geographer . To prove this , let us take a general view of the ...
Page 326
... Ptolemy , having adopted the measurement of Posidonius , making the degree 500 stadia , ( less than 50 G. miles , ) and converting his amplified itineraries into these small degrees , increased his longitudes in an extraordinary manner ...
... Ptolemy , having adopted the measurement of Posidonius , making the degree 500 stadia , ( less than 50 G. miles , ) and converting his amplified itineraries into these small degrees , increased his longitudes in an extraordinary manner ...
Page 327
... Ptolemy's errors accumulate always in proportion to the length of the line upon which the calculation is made ; so that scarcely any of them , as they stand , are of any value ; though M. Gosselin has no doubt shown that by the ap ...
... Ptolemy's errors accumulate always in proportion to the length of the line upon which the calculation is made ; so that scarcely any of them , as they stand , are of any value ; though M. Gosselin has no doubt shown that by the ap ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
4th of July accomplish adopted AFRICAN REPOSITORY Agent American Colonization Society annual Auxiliary Society Baptist benevolent blessings Board of Managers Bushmen Carolina cause Christian ciety civilization coast of Africa Collection by Rev Colonists congregation continent contribution Disosway Doct dollars Donation effect efforts emancipation emigrants evil exertions feel forward friends Gerrit Smith Hagerstown happy hearts honour hope human hundred increase influence Institution interest John Kentucky labour land laws liberal Liberia liberty lion manumission manumitted Mechlin meeting ment Methodist Millsburg missionary Monrovia moral nation native object Ohio opinion patriotic Pennsylvania persons of colour population Pres Presbyterian church present President principles Ptolemy purpose race received religion removal resolution respect river Secretary Sierra Leone slave trade slavery Smith South South Carolina spirit Tennessee tion Treasurer United vessel Vice-Presidents Virginia York
Fréquemment cités
Page 346 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. "They have stricken me," shalt thou say, "and I was not sick ; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Page 174 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 10 - Farming agriculture cannot sustain it ; for it is believed that nowhere in the farming portion of the United States would slave labour be generally employed, if the proprietor were not tempted to raise slaves by the high price of the Southern market, which keeps it up in his own.
Page 173 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Page 107 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound...
Page 226 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection? Dwells in white and black the same.
Page 252 - Peaceful, beneath primeval trees, that cast Their ample shade o'er Niger's yellow stream, And where the Ganges rolls his sacred wave; Or mid the central depth of blackening woods, High rais'd in solemn theatre around, Leans the huge elephant...
Page 325 - ... thousand dollars, payable to the Governor of the State and his successors in office, for the use...
Page 197 - ... independence, in the ordinary paths which a benign Providence has left open to the human race. Those great ends, it is conceived, may be accomplished by making adequate provision for planting, in some salubrious and fertile region, a colony, to be composed of such of the above description of persons as may choose to emigrate ; and for extending to it the authority and protection of the United States, until it shall have attained sufficient strength and consistency to be left in a state of independence.
Page 194 - States, for the purpose of obtaining a territory on the coast of Africa, or at some other place, not within any of the states or territorial governments of the United States, to serve as an asylum for such persons of/ colour as are now free, and may desire the same, and for those who may hereafter be emancipated within this Commonwealth; and that the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, be requested!