Peale's Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge, Embracing Science, History, Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form: Illustrated with a Large Number of Colored Charts and Diagrams, Constituting a Complete Cyclopedia of ReferenceR.S. Peale & Company, 1890 - 536 páginas |
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... Lake Erie to Hudson's Bay . East of this the variation is toward the west , and west of it it is toward the east . The earth itself is a great magnet , and this explains why the needle points north and south . A dipping needle is one ...
... Lake Erie to Hudson's Bay . East of this the variation is toward the west , and west of it it is toward the east . The earth itself is a great magnet , and this explains why the needle points north and south . A dipping needle is one ...
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... lakes and other prominent features of each continent were conned and repeated , but we seldom , perhaps never , bestowed a thought upon the formation of the mountains , and the manner in which rivers ran down into , and through , lakes ...
... lakes and other prominent features of each continent were conned and repeated , but we seldom , perhaps never , bestowed a thought upon the formation of the mountains , and the manner in which rivers ran down into , and through , lakes ...
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... Lakes dry up , and the meadow or farm arises on the site , while other old spots are sub- merged . The rocky wall over ... Lake Ontario than they now are . It is computed that the Mississippi carries annually into the Gulf of Mexico ...
... Lakes dry up , and the meadow or farm arises on the site , while other old spots are sub- merged . The rocky wall over ... Lake Ontario than they now are . It is computed that the Mississippi carries annually into the Gulf of Mexico ...
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... Lake are examples of the first class . Such lakes are usually salt . The water is either all lost by evaporation or is absorbed by the earth . Lakes of the second class are usually found in mountainous regions , and are the source of ...
... Lake are examples of the first class . Such lakes are usually salt . The water is either all lost by evaporation or is absorbed by the earth . Lakes of the second class are usually found in mountainous regions , and are the source of ...
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... Lakes of the fourth class are by far the most common . When water evaporates , all impurities are left behind ; hence rain water is not salt like the ocean . The water of springs , rivers and lakes is , therefore , pure and fresh ...
... Lakes of the fourth class are by far the most common . When water evaporates , all impurities are left behind ; hence rain water is not salt like the ocean . The water of springs , rivers and lakes is , therefore , pure and fresh ...
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Página 484 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 490 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
Página 484 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 484 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Página 523 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 490 - 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...
Página 487 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,...
Página 519 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 487 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Página 490 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.