The first book of geographyJ. Green, 1841 - 142 páginas |
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... round the Sun in three hundred and sixty - five days and a quarter , which makes one year , It has also another motion round itself , or , as we usually say , round its own axis . It rolls round its axis every twenty - four hours ...
... round the Sun in three hundred and sixty - five days and a quarter , which makes one year , It has also another motion round itself , or , as we usually say , round its own axis . It rolls round its axis every twenty - four hours ...
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... round ball , ( an orange will do , ) tie a piece of string to it , hold it by the string and walk round the table ; this will be the earth going round the sun ; let the ball continually turn round as you are walk- ing , and you will ...
... round ball , ( an orange will do , ) tie a piece of string to it , hold it by the string and walk round the table ; this will be the earth going round the sun ; let the ball continually turn round as you are walk- ing , and you will ...
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... round is that many people have sailed from England and other countries in a nearly westerly direction , and by keeping this course have been round the globe , and thus come back to the place from whence they set out . * We have very ...
... round is that many people have sailed from England and other countries in a nearly westerly direction , and by keeping this course have been round the globe , and thus come back to the place from whence they set out . * We have very ...
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... round every twenty - four hours ; there must in consequence be a great difference in the time of different places as they happen to be east or west of each other : thus , when it is twelve o'clock in the day at London it is twelve o ...
... round every twenty - four hours ; there must in consequence be a great difference in the time of different places as they happen to be east or west of each other : thus , when it is twelve o'clock in the day at London it is twelve o ...
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... round . The two Temperate zones lie between the Tropics and the Polar circles , and are each forty three degrees or about three thousand miles broad . They contain the most beautiful parts of the globe , especially the north temperate ...
... round . The two Temperate zones lie between the Tropics and the Polar circles , and are each forty three degrees or about three thousand miles broad . They contain the most beautiful parts of the globe , especially the north temperate ...
Términos y frases comunes
Affghanistan Africa Antarctic Ocean Arabia Arabian Sea Asia Asiatic Turkey Atlantic Ocean Austria Baltic-Sea Bay of Biscay beautiful bounded built called Cape capital celebrated chief rivers chief towns China Christians climate coast cold continent corn cultivated Describe divided earth east Egypt England English Europe famous fertile flowing fond France fruitful Geography Give Gold governed Greece grow Gulf Gulf of Venice high mountains Hindostan Holland Indian inhabited Ireland iron islands belong isles Isthmus Italy kind king lakes land Laplanders large town largest live Mediterranean Sea Mention Mexico miles Name natives nearly Pacific Ocean peninsula Persia Peru planets pleasant poles poor Portugal pretty principal rivers principal towns produce provinces religion remarkable round Russia Scotland sea-port Siberia silver small islands snow South America Spain Spaniards Straits Switzerland Tartary thing Tibet trade trees Turkey Turks warm wild winter zone
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Página 106 - I would not change my native land For rich Peru with all her gold : A nobler prize lies in my hand, Than East or Western Indies hold.
Página 17 - America is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by the Antarctic Ocean ; on the east by the Atlantic ; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Página 30 - PORTUGAL. PORTUGAL is bounded on the north and east by Spain, and on the west and south by the Atlantic.
Página 70 - Ishmael, because the LORD hath heard thy humiliation. 12. And he will be a wild man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell.
Página 81 - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the Isthmus of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean; on the south by the Southern Ocean, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Página 42 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Página 57 - It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean ; south, by the Indian Ocean ; east, by the Pacific Ocean...
Página 10 - ... 34. Parallel lines are those which are in every part equally distant from each other. They may be parallel straight lines ( = ), or parallel curved lines ( ^ ). 35.
Página 3 - And a little farther on we are told that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Página 12 - Circles, so that there is one in each hemisphere ; they are called temperate, because they are not subject to the excessive heat of the . Torrid , Zone, nor to the excessive cold of the Frigid Zones. The two Frigid Zones lie...