A sketch of modern and antient geography |
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... Kingdom of Attica founded by Cecrops . Thebes built by Cadmus . The five books of Moses written , who dies the next ... Kingdoms of Israel and Judah divided . Era of Homer and Hesiod . 896 Elijah taken up to heaven . 884 869 Lycurgus the ...
... Kingdom of Attica founded by Cecrops . Thebes built by Cadmus . The five books of Moses written , who dies the next ... Kingdoms of Israel and Judah divided . Era of Homer and Hesiod . 896 Elijah taken up to heaven . 884 869 Lycurgus the ...
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... Kingdom of Israel finished by the taking of Samaria by Sal- manasar king of Assyria . 685 Second Messenian war ; conti- nues 14 years to the taking of Ira after a siege of 11 years . Age of Tyrtæus and Archilochus . 684 Annual Archons ...
... Kingdom of Israel finished by the taking of Samaria by Sal- manasar king of Assyria . 685 Second Messenian war ; conti- nues 14 years to the taking of Ira after a siege of 11 years . Age of Tyrtæus and Archilochus . 684 Annual Archons ...
Strana 13
... kingdoms of England and Scotland , and the Principality of Wales . The Southern part of Great Britain to the Solway Firth ... Kingdom of Naples . At the top of Italy , to the West is Genoa , and above , Piedmont , in which is Turin , the ...
... kingdoms of England and Scotland , and the Principality of Wales . The Southern part of Great Britain to the Solway Firth ... Kingdom of Naples . At the top of Italy , to the West is Genoa , and above , Piedmont , in which is Turin , the ...
Strana 14
... Kingdom of Holland . Next to these is Jut- land , forming part of the Kingdom of Denmark , then Prussia , lying above Germany on the Coast of the Baltic . To the East of Germany , abové Hungary , was formerly the Kingdom of Poland ...
... Kingdom of Holland . Next to these is Jut- land , forming part of the Kingdom of Denmark , then Prussia , lying above Germany on the Coast of the Baltic . To the East of Germany , abové Hungary , was formerly the Kingdom of Poland ...
Strana 15
... Kingdom of Denmark con- sists of Jutland in the Continent , and several Islands in the Baltic , of which Zealand and Funen are the chief . Norway is now subject to the Crown of Sweden . * Between the Island of Zealand and the Coast of ...
... Kingdom of Denmark con- sists of Jutland in the Continent , and several Islands in the Baltic , of which Zealand and Funen are the chief . Norway is now subject to the Crown of Sweden . * Between the Island of Zealand and the Coast of ...
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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.