A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 sidor |
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... sometimes urges it on with a goad . When hard driven , it will run between fifty and sixty miles without stopping ; but this degree of exercise endangers the life of the animal . In general , rein - deer can go about thirty miles ...
... sometimes urges it on with a goad . When hard driven , it will run between fifty and sixty miles without stopping ; but this degree of exercise endangers the life of the animal . In general , rein - deer can go about thirty miles ...
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... sometimes for two or three years . The priest of the parish at last celebrates the nuptial ; but the bridegroom is obliged to serve his father - in - law for four years after marriage . He then carries home his wife and her fortune ...
... sometimes for two or three years . The priest of the parish at last celebrates the nuptial ; but the bridegroom is obliged to serve his father - in - law for four years after marriage . He then carries home his wife and her fortune ...
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... sometimes sudden tempests of snow rise that are still more dangerous . The winds seem at once to blow from all quarters , and drive about the snow with such fury , that the roads are in a moment invisible and unpassable . How dread- ful ...
... sometimes sudden tempests of snow rise that are still more dangerous . The winds seem at once to blow from all quarters , and drive about the snow with such fury , that the roads are in a moment invisible and unpassable . How dread- ful ...
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... sometimes , though but rarely , flesh or dried meat , oat bread , alled fladbrod , baked in small cakes about the size and thickness of a pancake , which is made twice a year . The peasants also , in times of scarcity , mix the bark of ...
... sometimes , though but rarely , flesh or dried meat , oat bread , alled fladbrod , baked in small cakes about the size and thickness of a pancake , which is made twice a year . The peasants also , in times of scarcity , mix the bark of ...
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... sometimes manufactured of the skins of the rein- eer . Over the shirt is another garment , of very fine - haired rein- Zeer skins , which are now so scarce in Greenland , that none but the ealthy can appear in them . Seal - skins are ...
... sometimes manufactured of the skins of the rein- eer . Over the shirt is another garment , of very fine - haired rein- Zeer skins , which are now so scarce in Greenland , that none but the ealthy can appear in them . Seal - skins are ...
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Sida 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Sida 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Sida 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Sida 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Sida 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Sida 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Sida 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Sida 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Sida 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Sida 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.