A sketch of modern and antient geography |
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Strana iii
... Britain has been wholly re - written , and as much inter- esting and important matter brought together , as seemed suitable to a book which professes to be only elementary . Important additions have also been made in the antient part ...
... Britain has been wholly re - written , and as much inter- esting and important matter brought together , as seemed suitable to a book which professes to be only elementary . Important additions have also been made in the antient part ...
Strana xv
... Britain . 53 Death of Crassus . 696 699 701 704 706 707 708 46 War of Africa . 709 710 711 712 715 50 Civil war between Cæsar and Pompey . 48 Battle of Pharsalia . 47 Alexandria taken by Cæsar . Cato kills himself . Cæsar corrects the ...
... Britain . 53 Death of Crassus . 696 699 701 704 706 707 708 46 War of Africa . 709 710 711 712 715 50 Civil war between Cæsar and Pompey . 48 Battle of Pharsalia . 47 Alexandria taken by Cæsar . Cato kills himself . Cæsar corrects the ...
Strana xvii
... Britain . 44 St. Mark writes his gospel . 51 Caractacus brought a prisoner to Rome . 54 Claudius poisoned by Agrippina and suc- ceeded by Nero . 59 Agrippina put to death by her son Nero . 64 First persecution of the Christians . 65 ...
... Britain . 44 St. Mark writes his gospel . 51 Caractacus brought a prisoner to Rome . 54 Claudius poisoned by Agrippina and suc- ceeded by Nero . 59 Agrippina put to death by her son Nero . 64 First persecution of the Christians . 65 ...
Strana xviii
... Britain . 130 Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem and erects a temple there to Jupiter . 131 The Jews rebel , and after a war of five years are defeated and all banished . 138 Death of Hadrian and succession of Anto- ninus Pius . In the reign of ...
... Britain . 130 Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem and erects a temple there to Jupiter . 131 The Jews rebel , and after a war of five years are defeated and all banished . 138 Death of Hadrian and succession of Anto- ninus Pius . In the reign of ...
Strana xix
... Britain . 962 209 Severus builds his wall in Britain . 964 211 Severus dies at York , and is succeeded by Caracalla and Geta . In the reign of Se- verus flourished Tertullian , Minucius Felix , Papinian , Clemens Alexandrinus ...
... Britain . 962 209 Severus builds his wall in Britain . 964 211 Severus dies at York , and is succeeded by Caracalla and Geta . In the reign of Se- verus flourished Tertullian , Minucius Felix , Papinian , Clemens Alexandrinus ...
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A sketch of modern and antient geography Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) Úplné zobrazenie - 1851 |
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Ægean Ægypt Africa afterwards Alexander Alps antiently called Arabia Armenia Asia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded brated Britain built Cæsar Campania Cape capital Cappadocia Caria Caspian cele celebrated Cilicia circle coast colony contained corrupted Danube death defeated district divided Eastward Emperor empire Equator Euboea Euphrates Europe Euxine extremity feet flows Gallia giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulph Hannibal Horace Imaus inhabitants island Isles Italy killed king Kingdom Lacedæmonians lake Latium little North Locri longitude Lydia Macedonia Mediterranean memorable miles Mount Mountains mouth Mysia nation Nile North East North Eastern North West Northern Numidia opposite Paphlagonia Persian Phocis Phrygia Pisidia Pompey Pontus principal city principal Rivers promontory province Rhine rises Roman Rome Scythia second Punic war shore Sicily Sinus Corinthiacus South East South West Southern Spain Syria Syrtis Syrtis Major temple Thessaly town tribes Vindelici Virg Virgil Western side whence
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.