The World and Its People, Book 6Larkin Dunton Silver, Burdett, 1897 |
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... nearly the entire year . We have noticed the great size of Asia . It is not only the largest of the continents , it is also the highest . Across the central part , from east to west , extend several great mountain ranges . One of these ...
... nearly the entire year . We have noticed the great size of Asia . It is not only the largest of the continents , it is also the highest . Across the central part , from east to west , extend several great mountain ranges . One of these ...
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... nearly every kind of tree and shrub known to man . One country in southeastern Asia has been called the " Garden of the World . " As Asia is the largest continent , we should expect it to be the home of many peoples . We are right in so ...
... nearly every kind of tree and shrub known to man . One country in southeastern Asia has been called the " Garden of the World . " As Asia is the largest continent , we should expect it to be the home of many peoples . We are right in so ...
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... nearly the whole of the southern half of the peninsula . This region , known as Deccan , or the South - land , is triangular in shape and bounded on all sides by low mountain ranges . To the east and west , these mountains are called ...
... nearly the whole of the southern half of the peninsula . This region , known as Deccan , or the South - land , is triangular in shape and bounded on all sides by low mountain ranges . To the east and west , these mountains are called ...
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... nearly equal in length to the Indus . These rivers and their tributaries , as we have seen , are made to rise rapidly during the rainy season , and , rushing down the mountain sides , they bring vast quantities. THE VALE OF CASHMERE ...
... nearly equal in length to the Indus . These rivers and their tributaries , as we have seen , are made to rise rapidly during the rainy season , and , rushing down the mountain sides , they bring vast quantities. THE VALE OF CASHMERE ...
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... nearly the whole of central and southern India came under the power of the East India Company . Among the noted governors of the great Company , the names of Lord Clive and Warren Hastings are the most famous . The foundations of ...
... nearly the whole of central and southern India came under the power of the East India Company . Among the noted governors of the great Company , the names of Lord Clive and Warren Hastings are the most famous . The foundations of ...
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Page 300 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 83 - Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die ; for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only motive which allured strangers to that great metropolis. Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares...
Page 103 - Hark cannonade, fusillade! is it true what was told by the scout, Outram and Havelock breaking their way through the fell mutineers? Surely the pibroch of Europe is ringing again in our ears! All on a sudden the garrison utter a jubilant shout, Havelock's glorious Highlanders answer with conquering cheers...
Page 83 - Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could...
Page 83 - It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines and minarets and balconies and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude...
Page 261 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Page 80 - After which, one of the men, taking a large earthen vessel, with a capacious mouth, filled it with water, and turned it upside down, when all the water flowed out ; but the moment it was placed with the mouth upwards, it always became full. He then emptied it, allowing any one to inspect it who chose. This being done, he desired that one of the party would fill it ; his request was obeyed ; still, when he reversed the jar, not a...
Page 131 - I remember, four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four points of the compass. From the rounded summit rises, like a needle, a sharp spire. This was the temple tower, and all over the magnificent pile, from the tip of the highest needle to the base, from every prominent angle and projection, there were hanging sweet-toned bells, with little gilded fans attached to their tongues ; so swinging that they were vocal in the slightest breeze.
Page 275 - O'er Arabia's desert sands The patient Camel walks : 'Mid lonely caves and rocky lands The fell Hyena stalks. On her cool and shady hills, Coffee shrubs, and tam'rinds grow ; Headlong fall the welcome rills Down the fruitful dells below.
Page 255 - Mid rose-trees hid, or perched on some high palm, The bulbul sings through eve's delicious calm ; While girt by planes, or washed by cooling streams, On some green flat the stately city gleams. — 'Tis as a demon there had cast his frown, And here an angel breathed a blessing down ; As if in nature...