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... side of the shadow with her Eastern side ; and so it is her Western side , which quits the shadow when the Eclipse ceases . 49. Eclipses of the Sun are also distinguished as Total , that is , when the Moon covers the whole body of the ...
... side of the shadow with her Eastern side ; and so it is her Western side , which quits the shadow when the Eclipse ceases . 49. Eclipses of the Sun are also distinguished as Total , that is , when the Moon covers the whole body of the ...
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... side to side , are East and West lines ( the right side being the East ) , and all the lines running across it from top to bottom , are North and South lines ( the top side being the North ) . When the degrees of Latitude increase ...
... side to side , are East and West lines ( the right side being the East ) , and all the lines running across it from top to bottom , are North and South lines ( the top side being the North ) . When the degrees of Latitude increase ...
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... side of the map : not at the top or bottom of the map , for these gradations are degrees of longi tude , and therefore , contain much less than 60 miles each . For instance , suppose it is required to know the distance of Rome from ...
... side of the map : not at the top or bottom of the map , for these gradations are degrees of longi tude , and therefore , contain much less than 60 miles each . For instance , suppose it is required to know the distance of Rome from ...
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... side or other of them , either North or South , according as they may be situated , throughout the whole year . Such as live in the Frigid Zone , are called Perisci ( from epi circum , and oкía ) , because , at certain seasons of the ...
... side or other of them , either North or South , according as they may be situated , throughout the whole year . Such as live in the Frigid Zone , are called Perisci ( from epi circum , and oкía ) , because , at certain seasons of the ...
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... side , and the left bank on the left , to one descending it . A lake ( Xiuvn lacus ) is a great collection of water , surrounded on all sides by land , and having no communication with the sea except by a river or a subter- raneous ...
... side , and the left bank on the left , to one descending it . A lake ( Xiuvn lacus ) is a great collection of water , surrounded on all sides by land , and having no communication with the sea except by a river or a subter- raneous ...
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Page 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 498 - 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 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Page xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Page 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...