...rence accurately. He used astronomical observations to calculate the difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now Asw ān) and Alexandria...

...ve evidence enough to confirm; he is let out by connivance, and has some little latitudes and advantages for mischief, by that means; returning at c...

...e example. Our sufficiencie is retailed into small parcells. Mine hath no latitude, and is in number very miserable. Saturninus answered those who h...

...st man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit. Transported to the ... ...e running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all ... ...verages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimmin... ...ust been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion shaped tablet, reserved for that daily pu... ...rcumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stret... ...led hearthstone, or aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whale... ...oby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. Nor, credulous as such minds... ...g to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails spread, floated across the tranqui... ...e is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spect...

...st man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the ... ...e running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all ... ...verages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimmi... ...ust been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion- shaped tablet, reserved for that daily p... ...rcumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stret... ...ed hearth-stone, or aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whale... ...oby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. Nor, credulous as such minds... ...g to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails spread, floated across the tranqu... ...ing to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to certa...

...had to give in that whatever T om was short in lon gitude he had made up in latitude and climate. It was about a stand off; so both of them had to w... ... for you! You’ll see by the professor’s books that they travel west in these latitudes; and they travel low, too.” Then he ciphered on the time, and s...

...nsible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gav... ...all, strong, and bony, a perfect specimen of the natives of those southern latitudes; he had dark, sparkling, and deep-set eyes, hooked nose, and teet... ..., haul out the reef-tackles on the yards.’” “That was not enough for those latitudes,” said the Englishman; “I should have taken four reefs in the top... ...er, the night was quite dark. Fortunately, the mariners were used to these latitudes, and knew every rock in the Tuscan Archipelago; for in the midst ... ...ur fogs and rains a man would habituate himself more easily than in a warm latitude to this progressive absorption of poison?” “Certainly; it being at...

... say it over) ‘—yes, that’s about the right distance— but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,...

...henceforth to take in a strictly Johnsonian sense, without any liberality or latitude of construction. THE VERY FRIENDLY YOUNG GENTLEMAN We know — and...

...university ladies that they were disposed from the first to allow her more latitude of speech and action than the ill-used wife was generally accorded...

...s off. Other places were scattered about the Equator, and in every sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres. I have been in some of them, and … w...

...o show where treasure is, and that the island lies—” And then he named the latitude and longitude ex- actly. “I never told that,” cried the squire, “t...

...ORNING MEETING—THE LETTER AGAIN and deed, and the maltster having the same latitude allowed him, did not hurry to reply. He picked up a fragment of ch...

...ell, for which they contended not; there- fore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase ...

... de él se poblare? Puede en hora buena el patriotismo posterior, darse estas latitudes, pero el buen sentido muestra que el estrecho era vía públic...

...estion of the external ob- server, but in the fact that there seems to be some latitude passed on within matter. That latitude points to “something” ...

...Successful armies do not turn their troops into automatons nor try to control them from the top, instead they allow considerable latitude, focused on the far-reaching object. A prerequisite for employing auftragstaktik is that subordinates must be well trained, with a sound understanding of the appropriate doctrine....

...am inclined to think that the commander and his companion were born in low latitudes. There is southern blood in them. But I cannot decide by their ap... ...empests; the compass, which guides my course; the sextant, which shows the latitude by the altitude of the sun; chronometers, by which I cal- culate t... ... his sextant, took the alti- tude of the sun, which ought also to give the latitude. He waited for some moments till its disc touched the hori- zon. W... ...ad upon the table, and I placed my finger on the very spot where the given latitude and longitude crossed. The sea has its large rivers like the conti... ...e of 4.25 (cent.): a temperature that at this depth seemed com- mon to all latitudes. At three o’clock in the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber the Na... ...nt up again on to the platform: night had already fallen; for, in this low latitude, the sun sets rapidly and without twilight. I could only see the i... ...e of four degrees and a half at a depth of five thousand fathoms under all latitudes. On the 16th of January, the Nautilus seemed becalmed only a few ... ...t I was obliged to take off my coat. It was strange, for we were under low latitudes; and even then the Nautilus, submerged as it was, ought to experi... ...e, knowing that these creatures, hunted to death, had taken refuge in high latitudes. We were seated on the platform, with a quiet sea. The month of O...

...in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the ac count of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have rea son to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be... ...orth west of Van Diemen’s Land. By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by i... ..., of Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor. We were now in the latitude of 30 degrees south; there were about fifty men in the ship; and... ...ar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant ... ...en at Tonquin, was, in his re turn to England, driven north eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and longitude of 143. But meeting a trade wind t... ...fore we saw the pirates I had taken an observation, and found we were in the latitude of 46 N. and longitude of 183. When I was at some distance from ... ... do not occur. Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 169 west about 29 degrees north latitude, and 140 longi tude. This island of Luggnagg stands south eastw... ... 10 degrees southward of the Cape of Good Hope, or about 45 degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words I overheard among them, b...