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... Russia . Gr . , baros , weight ; metron , An instrument for measuring measure . the weight of the air , and so determining the probable changes of the weather . Gr . , phainomenon , from A remarkable or unusual ap- phaino , show . Lat ...
... Russia . Gr . , baros , weight ; metron , An instrument for measuring measure . the weight of the air , and so determining the probable changes of the weather . Gr . , phainomenon , from A remarkable or unusual ap- phaino , show . Lat ...
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... Russia , or the prairies of the New World ; tracts which , in fertility of soil , may be compared with the most favoured regions of the Asiatic or the American continents , and others which are parched and sterile as the African Sahara ...
... Russia , or the prairies of the New World ; tracts which , in fertility of soil , may be compared with the most favoured regions of the Asiatic or the American continents , and others which are parched and sterile as the African Sahara ...
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... Russia , and other states , against her old enemy , Frederic of Prussia . Frederic , aided by Great Britain , his sole ally , sustained for SEVEN YEARS * a fearful contest with unequal forces but marvellous success . William Pitt guided ...
... Russia , and other states , against her old enemy , Frederic of Prussia . Frederic , aided by Great Britain , his sole ally , sustained for SEVEN YEARS * a fearful contest with unequal forces but marvellous success . William Pitt guided ...
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... Russia and Austria , encouraged by his absence in the East , had again taken up arms , and had driven the French from Italy ; but with Bonaparte's return victory returned , and Austria and Russia were compelled to submission and peace ...
... Russia and Austria , encouraged by his absence in the East , had again taken up arms , and had driven the French from Italy ; but with Bonaparte's return victory returned , and Austria and Russia were compelled to submission and peace ...
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... Russia brought into the field against him ; and in the supremacy of his power declared the British Isles in a state of blockade , and forbade any European country to have any intercourse or trade THE HOUSE OF HANOVER . 105.
... Russia brought into the field against him ; and in the supremacy of his power declared the British Isles in a state of blockade , and forbade any European country to have any intercourse or trade THE HOUSE OF HANOVER . 105.
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Africa America animals Arctic army Asia Atlantic Australia battle BATTLE OF FONTENOY belong birds Britain British burning called carnivora caused chiefly China civilisation climate cloth coal colonies colour continent cultivated defeated DERIVATION desert died Dr Livingstone earth England English Europe father feet fire flames France French George George III giraffe globe Gulf Stream Gutenberg HANOVER Harry heat hemisphere HOUSE OF HANOVER hundred hundredweights India inhabitants insects Ireland islands kind king labour land lion Lord Lord John Russell MEANING ment metal miles mountain Napoleon native night North o'er ocean ostrich Parliament peace plants Playhour pounds printed quadrupeds regions river round Russia Scotland shillings skin soon South South America species steam-engine stream SUMMARY.-The temperate tion torrid zone trees tribes troops tropical vegetable victory walrus wave winds wood yards
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.