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Page 49
... possessed by the celebrated chieftains , Hyder Ali and his son Tippoo Saib , who were almost always at war with the British . Tippoo Saib was conquered and slain , and his capital , Serin- gapatam , taken by the British , May 4th , 1799 ...
... possessed by the celebrated chieftains , Hyder Ali and his son Tippoo Saib , who were almost always at war with the British . Tippoo Saib was conquered and slain , and his capital , Serin- gapatam , taken by the British , May 4th , 1799 ...
Page 58
... possessed by the Dutch , but at present by the English . Here is the country of the Hottentots , who pro- verbially hold the lowest rank in the scale of human intellect and civilization , though , accord- ing to the accounts of the most ...
... possessed by the Dutch , but at present by the English . Here is the country of the Hottentots , who pro- verbially hold the lowest rank in the scale of human intellect and civilization , though , accord- ing to the accounts of the most ...
Page 69
... possessed for above a century and a half by the English . Porto Rico is above 120 miles long , and 40 broad , and belongs to Spain . East of these are the Carribbee Islands , the principal of which are Antigua , Guadaloupe , Martinico ...
... possessed for above a century and a half by the English . Porto Rico is above 120 miles long , and 40 broad , and belongs to Spain . East of these are the Carribbee Islands , the principal of which are Antigua , Guadaloupe , Martinico ...
Page 84
... possessed by the Barbarians , and , after that , for its being the seat of the Exarch , or Governor appointed by the Emperors of the East , when Italy was in possession of the Lombards . It was remarkably ill supplied with water till it ...
... possessed by the Barbarians , and , after that , for its being the seat of the Exarch , or Governor appointed by the Emperors of the East , when Italy was in possession of the Lombards . It was remarkably ill supplied with water till it ...
Page 104
... possessed the island till they were driven to its Western corner by the Siculi , an Italian nation . It was also called Trinacria , from having Tgeis ängai , three celebrated promontories ( the island itself being of a triangular shape ) ...
... possessed the island till they were driven to its Western corner by the Siculi , an Italian nation . It was also called Trinacria , from having Tgeis ängai , three celebrated promontories ( the island itself being of a triangular shape ) ...
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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.