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... Coast , s . limit , shore , land near the shore -r . n . to sail along or near to the coast Co'aster , s . one who sails near the shore ; a vessel trading from port to port of the same country Co'asting , s . sailing near the land Co ...
... Coast , s . limit , shore , land near the shore -r . n . to sail along or near to the coast Co'aster , s . one who sails near the shore ; a vessel trading from port to port of the same country Co'asting , s . sailing near the land Co ...
Side 445
... coast of Jutland . Pop . 8000 . Abaco ( Great and Little ) , two islands of the Bahama Archipelago , West Indies . The larger of the two is 86 miles long . Abadeh , a town of Persia , prov . Fars . Lon . 52.45 E. , lat . 31.16 N. Pop ...
... coast of Jutland . Pop . 8000 . Abaco ( Great and Little ) , two islands of the Bahama Archipelago , West Indies . The larger of the two is 86 miles long . Abadeh , a town of Persia , prov . Fars . Lon . 52.45 E. , lat . 31.16 N. Pop ...
Side 446
... coast of Africa . Pop . about 25,000 . Aboukir , a castle , island , and bay , on the coast of Egypt , to the west of the Rosetta mouth of the Nile . The bay is famous for the defeat and destruction of the French fleet , by Nelson , in ...
... coast of Africa . Pop . about 25,000 . Aboukir , a castle , island , and bay , on the coast of Egypt , to the west of the Rosetta mouth of the Nile . The bay is famous for the defeat and destruction of the French fleet , by Nelson , in ...
Side 447
... coast of Ireland , county of Mayo , and on the N. side of the entrance to Clew Bay . Achmim , or Ekhmim , a town of Upper Egypt , the ancient Chemmis , or Panopolis . Pop . 3000 . Adam's Peak , a conspicuous mountain in Ceylon , of ...
... coast of Ireland , county of Mayo , and on the N. side of the entrance to Clew Bay . Achmim , or Ekhmim , a town of Upper Egypt , the ancient Chemmis , or Panopolis . Pop . 3000 . Adam's Peak , a conspicuous mountain in Ceylon , of ...
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... coast of Africa , to the northward of the equator , and inhabited by a people called the Somauli , who are of pastoral habits . Ajmere , a city of British India , within the province of Rajpootana ( lat . 26. 20 N. , lon . 74.41 E ...
... coast of Africa , to the northward of the equator , and inhabited by a people called the Somauli , who are of pastoral habits . Ajmere , a city of British India , within the province of Rajpootana ( lat . 26. 20 N. , lon . 74.41 E ...
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Side 1 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Side 27 - Gyges' wealthy diadem. To-day is ours ; what do we fear ? To-day is ours ; we have it here : Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow ; To the Gods belongs to-morrow.
Side 1 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Side 1 - To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation...
Side 27 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Side 28 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Side 32 - In that Lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the Sterre transmontane, that is clept the Sterre of the See, that is unmevable, and that is toward the Northe,. that we clepen the "Lode Sterre.
Side 27 - ... to it. As it shall ever be my study to make discoveries of this nature in human life, and to settle the proper distinctions between the virtues and perfections of mankind, and those false colours and resemblances of them that shine alike in the eyes of the vulgar ; so I shall be more particularly careful to search into the various merits and pretences of the learned world.
Side 20 - M one may be little the wiser for reading," " for aught that 1 can understand." " it cometh to naught," " are there any with you?" " the virtue and force of every of ihe>e three is shrewdly allayed," " they say thai he has died immensely rich." Adverbs. These words do not admit of inflexion, and of them some are found only in the adverbial form, others are used as prepositions or conjunctions also; some are pronouns or adjectives ; and many are derived from adjectives and even from substantives....
Side 417 - ... what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him ; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver." And Delilah said to Samson, " Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee." And Samson said unto her, " If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.