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Page 4 - The radius of a circle is half the diameter, or it is a right line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as CD.
Page 16 - Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, in the order here enumerated.
Page 20 - A Frith or Estuary is the widening of a river into an arm of the sea; as, the Frith of Forth, the Humber.
Page 69 - A democracy is a republican state,, wherein the supreme power is placed in the hands of rulers chosen by and from the whole body of the people, or by their representatives assembled in a congress or national assembly ; as the United States of America, which elect their president every four years.
Page 21 - Every circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrces (marked °) ; every degree into 60 geographical miles or minutes (marked ') ; and every minute into 60 seconds (marked "). The degrees vary in extent, according to the magnitude of the circles. On the great circles, a degree being the 360th part of the earth's circumference, is equal to 60...
Page 104 - Head, and Spurn Head, in Yorkshire ; North Fore' land. South Fore' land, and Dungeness', in Kent; Beach'y Head, in Sussex; Needles, on the west of the Isle of Wight ; St Al'ban's Head, and Port'land Point, in Dorsetshire ; Start Point, in Devonshire ; Liz'ard Point, and Land's End, in Cornwall ; St Da'vid's Head, in Pembroke ; Hol'yhead, in Anglesea ; Great Orme's Head, in Denbigh ; St Bees Head, in Cumberland. MOUNTAINS. — Che'mot Hills, between Northumberland and Scotland ; Skid'daw and Scafell...
Page 77 - ... cannot be very easily estimated, but may be generally ranked below those of Europeans. Their domestic attachments are strong, and their reverence for ancestry deep. Their deportment is usually mild and courteous ; and they show themselves capable of generous and benevolent actions. On the other hand, among the subjects of the great empires, the obligations of truth and honesty are habitually trampled under foot ; the statesmen and chiefs are usually designing, treacherous, and inhuman, devoid...
Page 14 - ... are applied to the earth ? A. The Earth, on which we live, is called the Globe, the World, the Sphere, &c. The earth is round, or of a globular form, as is represented above. This is proved in various ways. 1st. When a ship goes out to sea, we first lose sight of the hull, or the body of the ship ; then of the sails, and lower rigging, and lastly, of the upper part of the masts. If the earth were not round, or spherical, the hull, or largest part would be last seen. 2d. In an eclipse of the moon,...
Page 16 - It has three motions : one round the earth, in about four weeks, which causes the moon's apparent increase and decrease, and produces the eclipses of the sun and moon ; another round its own axis in the same time ; and a third round the sun along with the earth in a year.
Page 108 - Scotland, by election, which is the case of the sixteen peers, who represent the body of the Scots nobility.