Elements of useful knowledge, in geography, history, and other sciencesJ. Allbut, 1809 - 120 páginas |
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Africa ALLBUT Appearance Apple Arabia Asia Atlantic Ocean Attraction Bay of Biscay Birth of Christ called capital Cities Cause Ciphers Clouds Colour contain Country distinguished diurnal diurnal Revolution Dividend Divisions Divisor East Indies Eclipse Egypt Engraved for Elements Europe Figure Fire fixed Stars four Quarters France Frigid Zone Georgium Sidus Globe greater Number Heat heavenly Bo Heavens History divided Hours hundred Miles Inhabitants Ireland Islands Isthmus Jupiter KNOWLEDGE Land Love Maps Millions Mogul Empire Moon Motion Mountains Multiplier Name the capital Nations Nature nitrous Vapours North America Noun Number Ocean Orbit round Participle Petersburgh Place Planets pluperfect Poland Pole principal Rain rarefied remarkable Event Revolution round Rivers round the Sun Russia shew Sicily Signs Solar System South Spain Subtraction Tartary Teneriff Tense Thing remarkable thou three hundred tion tures turns round twelve Units Venus Verb Vowels Water West World is drawn
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Página 83 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes =± 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month...
Página 60 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Página 65 - When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him...
Página 37 - Plantations, 4 Connecticut, 5 New York, 6 New Jersey, 7 Pennsylvania, 8 Delaware, 9 Maryland, 10 Virginia, 11 North Carolina, 12 South Carolina, 13 Georgia. It is to be noticed that this is the order in which the delegates signed the original " Articles of Confederation," and is the geographical order of the colonies from north to south.
Página 87 - Sun is a space of 28 years, in which time the days of the month return again to the same days of the week...
Página 106 - RULE. Place the less number under the greater; units under units, tens under tens, SfC.
Página 93 - ... Quotation, or a single or double comma turned, (') or ("), is put at the beginning of speeches, or such lines as are extracted out of other authors. An asterisk and...
Página 101 - The prepositions are words set before nouns or pronouns, to express the relations of persons, places and things to each other, as Jag bar ga till honom, I ought to go to him.
Página 100 - A participle is a word derived from a verb and partaking of the nature of a verb and of an adjective or a noun, or, in some instances, of an adverb.
Página 100 - AN ADVERB is a part of Speech joined to a Verb, an Adjective, a Participle, and sometimes to another Adverb, to express the quality or circumstance of it; as, " He reads well; a truly good man ; he is secretly plotting; he writes very correctly.