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... current is felt for several hundred miles out at sea . It passes through an immense plain , which is covered with trees and other vegetable productions of the most exuberant growth , and which constitutes one of the naturally richest ...
... current is felt for several hundred miles out at sea . It passes through an immense plain , which is covered with trees and other vegetable productions of the most exuberant growth , and which constitutes one of the naturally richest ...
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... current ( as applied to the ocean ) is a stream flowing in a certain direction , and conveying the water from one part of the ocean to another . It is simply a flow of waters ; an oceanic river . The chief causes of currents are : — ( 1 ) ...
... current ( as applied to the ocean ) is a stream flowing in a certain direction , and conveying the water from one part of the ocean to another . It is simply a flow of waters ; an oceanic river . The chief causes of currents are : — ( 1 ) ...
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... Current . This vast current takes its rise in the Antarctic Ocean , and flows north - east across the Pacific Ocean till it reaches the western coast of America at about 45 ° south latitude . It here divides into two branches , of which ...
... Current . This vast current takes its rise in the Antarctic Ocean , and flows north - east across the Pacific Ocean till it reaches the western coast of America at about 45 ° south latitude . It here divides into two branches , of which ...
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... current is , as already observed , connected with the great Equatorial Current , which flows round the globe , and it receives its name from the fact that it issues from the Gulf of Mexico . The water flowing through the Caribbean Sea ...
... current is , as already observed , connected with the great Equatorial Current , which flows round the globe , and it receives its name from the fact that it issues from the Gulf of Mexico . The water flowing through the Caribbean Sea ...
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... current from the Antarctic Ocean , for example , tempers the heat of Chili and Peru , while the warm waters of the Gulf Stream mitigate the severity of the northern climates . Currents have sometimes been divided into classes , as ...
... current from the Antarctic Ocean , for example , tempers the heat of Chili and Peru , while the warm waters of the Gulf Stream mitigate the severity of the northern climates . Currents have sometimes been divided into classes , as ...
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A B C acres annum Antarctic Ocean Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Bolivia Brazil breadth called Cape Caribbean Sea chief circle coast compound interest connected cube root diagonal diameter divided east England English equation examples Exercise feet figure Find the area flowing gnomon Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream height Hence islands Lake land language length linear units miles MOFFATT'S Mountains Multiply Pacific Ocean parallel Parliament perpendicular population port principal produce Pupil Teachers quadratic equation radius rate per cent rectangle A B rectangle contained right angle River Rule of Three Saxon sentence side simple interest South America square on A C straight line Strait surface town twice the rectangle verb whole winds words Write yards
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Page 263 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 207 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 210 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 211 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 2 committeth himself to prison...
Page 263 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief fiieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it...
Page 251 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 246 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 209 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 305 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 218 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.