Geography: Or, First Division of "The English Encyclopædia", Volume 4Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 159 - ... them, are so perfect that it may be doubted whether any work of the ancients, excepting perhaps some on the banks of the Nile, have come down to our time so little injured by the lapse of ages. There is, in fact, scarcely a building of forty years' standing in England so well preserved in the greater part of its architectural decorations.
Page 293 - For fourteen weeks, he was sorely tost in a bitter season, not knowing what bread or bed did mean.
Page 217 - I had ever seen. There was no mistaking it: it was that mountain which was made known to the world by the merest accident, by an Indian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots; it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass, which yet had attractions sufficient to cause a city to be built at its base, at one time containing a hundred thousand inhabitants...
Page 31 - Rebellion,' the copyright of which was given to the University. The printing for the University was carried on in this building from 1713 to 1830, when it was removed to the newly-erected printing-house.
Page 359 - THE, extends over the northeastern part of Europe, over the whole of Northern Asia, and the north-western coast of North America. It consists of...
Page 159 - ... nature in her most savage and romantic form, while their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and regularity of art, with colonnades, and pediments, and ranges of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface.
Page 215 - March 9th, the articles of the new constitution, securing freedom of person and property, the liberty of the press, legal equality, and the abolition of privileges, the admission of all citizens to all offices, and the sovereignty of the nation, were adopted almost unanimously.
Page 71 - The most remarkable of the trees is that which yields the famous herb called matt, or Paraguay tea [TEA, PARAGUAY], and which is extensively used in the southern countries of South America as a beverage. The country which separates the yerbales (or forests from which the leaf is procured) from the Paraguay is without cultivation, and covered with thorny trees intersected by marshy grounds. As Paraguay does not contain such extensive prairies as those which occur in all the surrounding countries,...
Page 263 - Pone and the Christian powers, Ragusa continued to enjoy her independence and neutral security, paying the accustomed tribute to the Sultan, who however did not interfere in her internal concerns, and no Turkish soldier was allowed to step within its boundaries. The Sultan's protection was of importance to Ragusa, by securing its flag from the attacks of the Barbary pirates. In this respect the Ragusan...
Page 175 - Upon this promontory stood one of the finest cities that probably ever existed, now presenting magnificent wrecks of grandeur. I rode for at least three miles through a part of the city which was one pile of temples, theatres, and buildings, vying with each other in splendour ; the elevated site for such a city is quite unaccountable to me.