The World in a Pocket Book, Or, Universal Popular Statistics: Embracing ... an Ample ... Synopsis of the United States ... a Complete History of Every Nation, Ancient and Modern ... and a Condensed But Complete View of the Ancient World ...G.G. Evans, 1858 - 493 páginas |
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... chief Battles and Sieges of the World ; and a condensed but complete View of the Ancient World . A variety of Miscellaneous Statistics , curious and useful information ; and all great Changes and Events , from the Creation to the ...
... chief Battles and Sieges of the World ; and a condensed but complete View of the Ancient World . A variety of Miscellaneous Statistics , curious and useful information ; and all great Changes and Events , from the Creation to the ...
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... chief seas are the Mediterranean , Baltic , Black Sea , Caspian , North Sea , Japan Sea , Red Sea , British and Irish Channels . The Atmosphere . - The globe is surrounded by a col- lection of vapours called the air or atmosphere ...
... chief seas are the Mediterranean , Baltic , Black Sea , Caspian , North Sea , Japan Sea , Red Sea , British and Irish Channels . The Atmosphere . - The globe is surrounded by a col- lection of vapours called the air or atmosphere ...
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... chiefs , 11,500,000 Tartary , do . , 10,000,000 China , Despotic monarchy , ( Emperor . ) 396,000,000 Japan , Despotic monarchy , 25,000,000 British India , Limited monarchy , ( E. ( Hindostan , & c . ) I. Company and the Sov . of G ...
... chiefs , 11,500,000 Tartary , do . , 10,000,000 China , Despotic monarchy , ( Emperor . ) 396,000,000 Japan , Despotic monarchy , 25,000,000 British India , Limited monarchy , ( E. ( Hindostan , & c . ) I. Company and the Sov . of G ...
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... chiefs , 1,500,000 English posses- sions in Am- erica & Is- lands , Limited monarchy , . 4,000,000 French do . , Colonies ,. Spanish do . , Monarchy , 210,000 1,400,000 Dutch possess- sions do . , Danish do . , Limited monarchy ...
... chiefs , 1,500,000 English posses- sions in Am- erica & Is- lands , Limited monarchy , . 4,000,000 French do . , Colonies ,. Spanish do . , Monarchy , 210,000 1,400,000 Dutch possess- sions do . , Danish do . , Limited monarchy ...
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... chief points of their history . ABYSSINIA is an eastern kingdom of Africa , 800 miles long by 600 wide . It contains a population of 2,060,000 inhabitants . Chief city , Gondor , with a population of 40,600 . Religion , Mahommedan and ...
... chief points of their history . ABYSSINIA is an eastern kingdom of Africa , 800 miles long by 600 wide . It contains a population of 2,060,000 inhabitants . Chief city , Gondor , with a population of 40,600 . Religion , Mahommedan and ...
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Página 6 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Página 445 - Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 185 - Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode...
Página 82 - On Suli's rock and Parga's shore Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown The Heracleidan blood might own.
Página 348 - Tyler insurrection. 1383 Cannon first used in the English service by the governor of Calais. 1384 The first navigation act: — no goods to be exported or imported In foreign bottoms. 1387 The first Lord High Admiral was appointed. 1388 The Scot- defeated the English at Otterburn.
Página 145 - It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults — in glens and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from all human eyes, and from which the conquerors, Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed, was triumphantly asserted, and the battalions of the czar gave way before our steady courage and the chivalrous fire of France.
Página 411 - Diana's name in hell. HEC'TOR, a son of Priam and Hecuba, and the most valiant of all the Trojans.
Página 314 - Magazine estimates that at 8">() a ton the shipping of the world is worth the enormous amount of $775,000,000. Of this fifteen and a half millions of tonnage, more than ten and a half millions belong to the Anglo-Saxon race; United States, 40,500 vessels, and 5,661,416 tonnage ; Great Britain, 35,960 vessels, and 5,043,270 tonnage.
Página 278 - Cro3sus possessed in landed property a fortune equal to $8,500,000, besides a large amount of money, slaves and furniture, which amounted to an equal sum. He used to say that a citizen who had not a sufficient sum to support an army or a legion, did not deserve the title of a rich man.
Página 435 - The History of Philosophy presents the spectacle of thousands of intellects — some the greatest that have made our race illustrious — steadily concentrated on problems believed to be of vital importance, yet producing no other result than a conviction of the extreme facility of error, and the remoteness of any probability that Truth can be reached.* The only conquest has been critical, that is to say, psychological.