The Children's Encyclopedia, Volum 3Arthur Mee educational book Company, 1910 |
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Pàgina 1302
... of Athens went to their ships , having set their women and children on an island hard by ; and it was now the counsel of Themistocles that they nation , which could act in harmony ; but all 1302 THE CHILD'S BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN-
... of Athens went to their ships , having set their women and children on an island hard by ; and it was now the counsel of Themistocles that they nation , which could act in harmony ; but all 1302 THE CHILD'S BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN-
Pàgina 1314
... Island of Blefuscu , the other great empire of the universe . The long - standing trouble between these two mighty ... Islands . The ship being in need of water , the captain sent a party ashore in the long- boat , Gulliver being of ...
... Island of Blefuscu , the other great empire of the universe . The long - standing trouble between these two mighty ... Islands . The ship being in need of water , the captain sent a party ashore in the long- boat , Gulliver being of ...
Pàgina 1315
... island inhabited by philosophers and astronomers , and to the country of the Houyhnhnms , in which horses were the representatives of civilisation , and men , under the name of Yahoos , were degraded beings of the lowest type . The next ...
... island inhabited by philosophers and astronomers , and to the country of the Houyhnhnms , in which horses were the representatives of civilisation , and men , under the name of Yahoos , were degraded beings of the lowest type . The next ...
Pàgina 1355
... island of New Guinea . The Dutch came next with many expeditions all through the seventeenth century , and for 150 years what was known of the island - continent was called New Holland . But neither Spaniards nor Dutch made colonies in ...
... island of New Guinea . The Dutch came next with many expeditions all through the seventeenth century , and for 150 years what was known of the island - continent was called New Holland . But neither Spaniards nor Dutch made colonies in ...
Pàgina 1356
... island of Tasmania across Bass Straits , for a rough and steep mountain range with great cliffs 2,000 feet high in parts shut them away from the wide uplands and deserts beyond them in the interior . Then there came a change . A kind of ...
... island of Tasmania across Bass Straits , for a rough and steep mountain range with great cliffs 2,000 feet high in parts shut them away from the wide uplands and deserts beyond them in the interior . Then there came a change . A kind of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 1598 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. "In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Pàgina 1853 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Pàgina 1854 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Pàgina 1479 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Pàgina 1782 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade ! " Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Pàgina 1480 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights; who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Pàgina 1598 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Pàgina 1783 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd : Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke ; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Pàgina 1598 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Pàgina 1397 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.