The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 4
... Climate , The Walrus and the Bear , The House of Hanover ( 3 ) , Work , · Dinners in many Lands , The Heritage , . The Black Country at Night ( 1 ) , 66 5 The Giraffe , 152 9 • Travelling in Canada , 156 14 The House of Hanover ( 7 ) ...
... Climate , The Walrus and the Bear , The House of Hanover ( 3 ) , Work , · Dinners in many Lands , The Heritage , . The Black Country at Night ( 1 ) , 66 5 The Giraffe , 152 9 • Travelling in Canada , 156 14 The House of Hanover ( 7 ) ...
Pàgina 44
... climate is the amount of heat received from the sun . Any spot on the globe receives 8000 out of every 10,000 rays of the sun when he is vertical , the air absorbing the other 2000. It receives 7000 if those rays have an 44 CLIMATE .
... climate is the amount of heat received from the sun . Any spot on the globe receives 8000 out of every 10,000 rays of the sun when he is vertical , the air absorbing the other 2000. It receives 7000 if those rays have an 44 CLIMATE .
Pàgina 45
... the heat of the atmosphere diminishes as the earth is distanced . Three hundred and thirty feet of altitude is equal in this respect to one degree of latitude ; but the diminution of heat does not proceed constantly at this or CLIMATE . 45.
... the heat of the atmosphere diminishes as the earth is distanced . Three hundred and thirty feet of altitude is equal in this respect to one degree of latitude ; but the diminution of heat does not proceed constantly at this or CLIMATE . 45.
Pàgina 46
... climate of a plateau is generally extreme . WINDS . The direction of the prevailing winds , taken with the form of the land , has much to do with the climate . The west winds of Europe , blowing from the sea , are warm and moist ; those ...
... climate of a plateau is generally extreme . WINDS . The direction of the prevailing winds , taken with the form of the land , has much to do with the climate . The west winds of Europe , blowing from the sea , are warm and moist ; those ...
Pàgina 47
... climate . ( 4. ) The character of the adjacent country : Mountains often be- come a screen from either hot or cold winds , thus rendering a climate less extreme . ( 5. ) Winds affect climate , according to the quarter from which they ...
... climate . ( 4. ) The character of the adjacent country : Mountains often be- come a screen from either hot or cold winds , thus rendering a climate less extreme . ( 5. ) Winds affect climate , according to the quarter from which they ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Pàgina 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Pàgina 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Pàgina 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Pàgina 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Pàgina 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Pàgina 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Pàgina 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Pàgina 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Pàgina 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.