The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volume 6 |
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... tropical region may enjoy a temperate or cool climate ? How does the sea affect the adjacent lands ? Give examples of places having insular and continental climates . Give any countries you know which are made colder by the presence of ...
... tropical region may enjoy a temperate or cool climate ? How does the sea affect the adjacent lands ? Give examples of places having insular and continental climates . Give any countries you know which are made colder by the presence of ...
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... tropical regions of South America abound with trees of magnificent size , displaying large flowers of brilliant colours ; but the drier air of the eastern hemisphere concentrates the juices , and imparts that strong aromatic character ...
... tropical regions of South America abound with trees of magnificent size , displaying large flowers of brilliant colours ; but the drier air of the eastern hemisphere concentrates the juices , and imparts that strong aromatic character ...
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... tropical , bounded by the isotherm of 7310 , is the zone of the sugar - cane , cotton , and coffee , tree- ferns ... tropical zone , to isotherm 63 ° , is charac- terized by myrtles and laurels , the fig and olive , with rice , cotton ...
... tropical , bounded by the isotherm of 7310 , is the zone of the sugar - cane , cotton , and coffee , tree- ferns ... tropical zone , to isotherm 63 ° , is charac- terized by myrtles and laurels , the fig and olive , with rice , cotton ...
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... tropical produces sugar , coffee , and fig - like fruits ; and the sub - tropical , olives and myrtles , rich fruits , rice , and tobacco . The temperate zone has the various corns ; and , in its colder part , oak and other trees , with ...
... tropical produces sugar , coffee , and fig - like fruits ; and the sub - tropical , olives and myrtles , rich fruits , rice , and tobacco . The temperate zone has the various corns ; and , in its colder part , oak and other trees , with ...
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... Tropical , Warmer temperate , Equatorial , Sub - tropical ,. Deciduous trees , Colder temperate , Pines , Sub - arctic , Rhododendrons , Arctic , Lichens , mosses , and Alpine plants , Polar , VERTICAL . Sea level to 2000 ft . 2000-4000 ...
... Tropical , Warmer temperate , Equatorial , Sub - tropical ,. Deciduous trees , Colder temperate , Pines , Sub - arctic , Rhododendrons , Arctic , Lichens , mosses , and Alpine plants , Polar , VERTICAL . Sea level to 2000 ft . 2000-4000 ...
Expressions et termes fréquents
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
Fréquemment cités
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.