Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E. Smedley, Hugh J. Rose and Henry J. Rose. [With] Plates, Том 211845 |
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... Mountains . The general breadth of the valley of Glenmore is about a mile ; in some places it is less than half a mile , and the mountains which confine it are every where high and precipitous . The surfaces of the hills , which face ...
... Mountains . The general breadth of the valley of Glenmore is about a mile ; in some places it is less than half a mile , and the mountains which confine it are every where high and precipitous . The surfaces of the hills , which face ...
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... mountains , in a great measure covered with heath . The corn - land , wood - lands , and green pastures , taken together , it is said , do not amount to eight acres in a hundred . The great difference in soil and climate between the ...
... mountains , in a great measure covered with heath . The corn - land , wood - lands , and green pastures , taken together , it is said , do not amount to eight acres in a hundred . The great difference in soil and climate between the ...
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... mountains , many streams of most excellent water , and the air of all is extremely healthy . There is no poisonous vermin ( bihos ) in any of them ; they are very fertile in rice , millet , ( Sorghum , ) cows , goats , fowls , and so ...
... mountains , many streams of most excellent water , and the air of all is extremely healthy . There is no poisonous vermin ( bihos ) in any of them ; they are very fertile in rice , millet , ( Sorghum , ) cows , goats , fowls , and so ...
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... Mountain , ) the highest part of the Island at its North - Eastern , and 4. Leftimo , or more properly Lefchimo , ( Acukupov , ) from the Pro- montory Leucimma , ( Aevkiμμa йkpa , ) at its Southern extremity . The mountains of Corfù ...
... Mountain , ) the highest part of the Island at its North - Eastern , and 4. Leftimo , or more properly Lefchimo , ( Acukupov , ) from the Pro- montory Leucimma , ( Aevkiμμa йkpa , ) at its Southern extremity . The mountains of Corfù ...
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... mountain ridges into four natural divisions ; hence it was called a Tetra- polis by the Ancients . Bæa , the mountain ... mountains , Mavrovunò , ( Mavpoßovvov , ) Atros , and Coronos , with a very small passage ( rópos ) for its waters ...
... mountain ridges into four natural divisions ; hence it was called a Tetra- polis by the Ancients . Bæa , the mountain ... mountains , Mavrovunò , ( Mavpoßovvov , ) Atros , and Coronos , with a very small passage ( rópos ) for its waters ...
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Страница 158 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Страница 6 - NB — Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent., and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent, unless general, or the ship be stranded.
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Страница 65 - Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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Страница 362 - THE great end of men's entering into society being the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety, and the great instrument and means of that being the laws established in that society, the first and fundamental positive law of all commonwealths is the establishing of the legislative power, as the first and fundamental natural law which is to govern even the legislative.
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