A System of Modern Geography: For Schools, Academies, and Families, Designed to Answer the Twofold Purpose of a Correct Guide to the Student, and of a Geographical Reading BookR. White, 1835 - 306 sider |
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Side 224 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Side 18 - I and 2 state the doctrine of the Trinity, and accept the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as the word of God and only " rule of faith and practice " ; Article 3 declares that " God chose his people in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world...
Side 18 - We receive the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as the Word of God, and promise to make them the only rule of our, religious faith and practice.
Side 12 - An island is a smaller portion of land altogether surrounded by water. A peninsula is a portion of land almost surrounded by water. An isthmus is a narrow neck of land joining two continents, or a peninsula and a continent.
Side 251 - Altai chain of mountains on the south, and from the Ural mountains on the west to the Pacific ocean on the east.
Side 76 - OF, a tract of country, 10 miles square, on both sides of Potomac river, 120 miles from its mouth. It was ceded to the United States, by Maryland and Virginia, in 1790, and in 1800 became the seat of the general government. It is under the immediate government of Congress.
Side 31 - Colbert's ferry, where the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude strikes the same ; thence, due west, with said degree of north latitude, to where it cuts the Mississippi river at or near the Chickasaw Bluffs ; thence, up the said Mississippi river, to the mouth of the Ohio; thence, up the Ohio river, to the mouth of Tennessee river ; thence, up the Tennessee river, to the place of beginning.
Side 29 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are parties.
Side 302 - Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, in the order here enumerated.
Side 122 - The Amazon is the largest river in the world. It rises in the small lake of Lanricocha, in the western chain of the Andes, and falls, after a course of more than.