| 1908 - 650 páginas
...Java? 4. Explain how the size of the earth can bo deduced from observations of the Polar Star. 5. "... Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky. ' Explain and account for the physical conditions referred to in these lines. 6. Name the principal... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 páginas
...world, the image of the great, Like that, amidst the boundless ocean set, 10 Of her own growth has all that nature craves. And all that 's rare as tribute...waves. As Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to her Nile owes more than to the sky, So what our earth and what our heaven denies, 15 Our ever constant... | |
| Herbert Levi Osgood - 1924 - 596 páginas
...pouvoir n'a pas plus de bornes que 1'Ocfean.'.' Esprit den loia, livre XIX, c. XXVII. As Egypt docs not on the clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky; So what our earth, and what our heaven denies, Our ever constant friend, the sea, supplies. The... | |
| Herbert Levi Osgood - 1924 - 598 páginas
...leur pouvoir n'a pas plus de bornes que l'Oc*an." Esppt des lois, livre XIX, c. XXVII. As Egypt docs not on the clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky; So what our earth, and what our heaven denies, Our ever constant friend, the sea, supplies. The... | |
| 446 páginas
...that» о first Quart, 23 dayf. at * aftera. The Influences of the Stars of late ; 18. As Egypt docs not on the Clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the Sky ; .So what our Clime, or what our Earth denies, Our ever constant Friend, the Sea, supplies: The... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1843 - 582 páginas
...even the luxuries of life ; for it is as true now as it was when the poet first uttered it, that — " As Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky ; So what our earth, and what our heaven denies, Our ever constant friend, the sea, supplies. The... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 336 páginas
...that, amidst the boundless ocean set, Of her own growth, hath all that nature craves ; And all that's rare, as tribute from the waves. As Egypt does not...clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky; So, what our earth, and what our heaVn, denies, Our ever-constant friend, the sea, supplies. The... | |
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