A Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific ...C. D. Strong, 1841 - 1008 páginas |
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... trees , called oases . In some places we meet with vast plains entirely destitute of trees , but bearing grasses , saline and succulent plants , and dwarfish shrubs . Those which bear nutritive herbage are called prairies , llanos , or ...
... trees , called oases . In some places we meet with vast plains entirely destitute of trees , but bearing grasses , saline and succulent plants , and dwarfish shrubs . Those which bear nutritive herbage are called prairies , llanos , or ...
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... trees and plants are ex- changed for others . The orange gives place to the peach and vine ; these disappear , and the hardier fruits , such as apples and pears , are suspended from the trees . These disappear again , and forests of ...
... trees and plants are ex- changed for others . The orange gives place to the peach and vine ; these disappear , and the hardier fruits , such as apples and pears , are suspended from the trees . These disappear again , and forests of ...
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... trees . It is chiefly found in the countries bordering on the southern part of the Baltic Sea . It was formerly taken by the fishermen , in nets , but is now procured by digging in the hills of sand along the coast . The largest piece ...
... trees . It is chiefly found in the countries bordering on the southern part of the Baltic Sea . It was formerly taken by the fishermen , in nets , but is now procured by digging in the hills of sand along the coast . The largest piece ...
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... trees . Several fruit - trees , among which are the apple , the pear , the cherry , and the plum , grow better in the higher latitudes ; while to the regions nearer the tropics belong the olive , lemon , orange , and fig , the cedar ...
... trees . Several fruit - trees , among which are the apple , the pear , the cherry , and the plum , grow better in the higher latitudes ; while to the regions nearer the tropics belong the olive , lemon , orange , and fig , the cedar ...
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... trees , and what- ever else the credulous savage sees endowed with powers of good or evil , become the objects of gratitude or fear and worship . Different forms of fetichism prevail among the negro tribes of Africa , in Australia ...
... trees , and what- ever else the credulous savage sees endowed with powers of good or evil , become the objects of gratitude or fear and worship . Different forms of fetichism prevail among the negro tribes of Africa , in Australia ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 21 - ... 430 feet; Mars a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from...
Página 151 - ... saith the LORD of hosts- According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you, fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Página 339 - The Indian rose from his seat, as if in extreme suffering. He passed and repassed me several times, and once pinched me on the side so violently, that the pain nearly brought forth an exclamation of anger. I looked at him ; his eye met mine, but his look was so forbidding, that it struck a chill into the more nervous part of my system. He again seated himself, drew...
Página 293 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head-ache.
Página 125 - And shall have exclusively all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors, or other public ministers, or their domestics, or domestic servants, as a court of law can have or exercise consistently with the law of nations; and original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors, or other public ministers, or in which a consul or vice-consul shall be a party.
Página 91 - His favorite residence, however, is in the dark solitudes of deep swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber ; and here, as soon as evening draws on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, Making night hideous.
Página 89 - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Página 125 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Página 125 - That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of...
Página 125 - The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a State is a party, except between a State and its citizens, or between a State and citizens of other States, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction.