The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volumen 9H.D. Symonds, 1800 |
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... measure the earth are very plain and eafy to be understood . But it will be neceffary to obferve that every great circle , and confe- quently the circumference of the earth , is divided into 360 equal parts , called degrees , and every ...
... measure the earth are very plain and eafy to be understood . But it will be neceffary to obferve that every great circle , and confe- quently the circumference of the earth , is divided into 360 equal parts , called degrees , and every ...
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... measured by à chain , or otherwise , we fhall know the length of a degree , and confequently of any part of a degree , in English measure . This has been done by feveral geographers , particularly by our countryman Mr. Richard Norwood ...
... measured by à chain , or otherwise , we fhall know the length of a degree , and confequently of any part of a degree , in English measure . This has been done by feveral geographers , particularly by our countryman Mr. Richard Norwood ...
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... measure ; but this is a fubject of curiofity , not im- portance ; and the highest commendation of poetry is its usefulness , and the only true method of pronouncing its eulogium , is to fhew the advantages accruing there- from . Of this ...
... measure ; but this is a fubject of curiofity , not im- portance ; and the highest commendation of poetry is its usefulness , and the only true method of pronouncing its eulogium , is to fhew the advantages accruing there- from . Of this ...
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... measuring the proportion of a column - a fudden guft arose and fwept away the whole building !! The furprize I felt at fo ftrange an occurrence awoke me , and left me at liberty to commit my vifion to paper . ON THE SUN'S PASSAGE ...
... measuring the proportion of a column - a fudden guft arose and fwept away the whole building !! The furprize I felt at fo ftrange an occurrence awoke me , and left me at liberty to commit my vifion to paper . ON THE SUN'S PASSAGE ...
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... measure , owing to our navy . An invafion is almoft impoffible . Britain is on every fide Surrounded , and fecured by her courage and bravery . LORD HOOD is a native of the West of England , which , from the maritime nature of its ...
... measure , owing to our navy . An invafion is almoft impoffible . Britain is on every fide Surrounded , and fecured by her courage and bravery . LORD HOOD is a native of the West of England , which , from the maritime nature of its ...
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Página 365 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 365 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Página 11 - Had form'd the whole, and made the parts agree, That no unequal portions might be found, He moulded earth into a spacious round: Then with a breath, he gave the winds to blow; And bade the congregated waters flow.
Página 353 - States, to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature ; in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government...
Página 415 - Excepting the streets and avenues and a small part of the ground adjoining the public buildings, the whole place is covered with trees. To be under the necessity of going through a deep wood for one or two miles, perhaps, in order to see a next-door neighbor, and in the same city, is a curious and, I believe, a novel circumstance.
Página 351 - Item. — Whereas by a law of the Commonwealth of Virginia, enacted in the year 1785, the Legislature thereof was pleased, as an evidence of its approbation of the services I had rendered the public during the Revolution, and partly, I believe, in consideration of my having suggested the vast advantages which the community would derive from the extension of its inland navigation under legislative...
Página 352 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Página 349 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately President of the same, do make, ordain, and declare this instrument, which is written with my own hand, and every page thereof subscribed with my name,« to be my last WILL and TESTAMENT, revoking all others.
Página 350 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Página 18 - Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Four-pence each.