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... Africa . 709 710 711 712 715 50 Civil war between Cæsar and Pompey . 48 Battle of Pharsalia . 47 Alexandria taken by Cæsar . Cato kills himself . Cæsar corrects the calendar by the advice of Sosigenes : the year of confusion , consist ...
... Africa . 709 710 711 712 715 50 Civil war between Cæsar and Pompey . 48 Battle of Pharsalia . 47 Alexandria taken by Cæsar . Cato kills himself . Cæsar corrects the calendar by the advice of Sosigenes : the year of confusion , consist ...
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... Africa . There is no map in common collections used at schools comprising a part of the globe wholly in Southern latitude : South America contains the greatest portion of it . Also when the figures con- tinually increase to the right at ...
... Africa . There is no map in common collections used at schools comprising a part of the globe wholly in Southern latitude : South America contains the greatest portion of it . Also when the figures con- tinually increase to the right at ...
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... Africa , commonly called the Old World , as having been known to the antients . The left , or Western Hemisphere , contains the two Continents of North and South America , called the New World , having been only dis- covered by Columbus ...
... Africa , commonly called the Old World , as having been known to the antients . The left , or Western Hemisphere , contains the two Continents of North and South America , called the New World , having been only dis- covered by Columbus ...
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... Africa , and the two Americas , Australasia , containing New Holland and the adjacent Islands , and Polynesia ( from πολὺς and νῆσος ) , comprising the numerous Islands in the Pacific Ocean . It is not probable , however , that this ...
... Africa , and the two Americas , Australasia , containing New Holland and the adjacent Islands , and Polynesia ( from πολὺς and νῆσος ) , comprising the numerous Islands in the Pacific Ocean . It is not probable , however , that this ...
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... a great spirit embodied : their religion is intimately connected with Schamanism , as is the Brah- manism of the Hindoos , and the idolatrous polytheism of the Chinese . CHAPTER V. AFRICA . AFRICA in breadth is about 4150 56.
... a great spirit embodied : their religion is intimately connected with Schamanism , as is the Brah- manism of the Hindoos , and the idolatrous polytheism of the Chinese . CHAPTER V. AFRICA . AFRICA in breadth is about 4150 56.
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Page 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Page 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Page 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Page 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.