After returning to his desk, Oscar had but little time to finish learning his geography lesson, before the class was called out to recite.
I am not trying to give you a history or geography lesson!
Mr. Harrison devotes several pages of his book to what he describes as the commercial geography of the country extending from Athabaska to the delta of the Mackenzie.
Richmond was not yet selected as the Confederate capital, but its choice as such was already foreshadowed as a necessary requirement alike of geography and politics, and within a brief while the foreshadowing became a fact.
It is true that the geography of the Carolinian coast country specially lent itself to the defense of that region by small forces arrayed against greatly superior numbers.
This position was suggested by the artificial geography of railroad construction.
It was defended by the natural physical geography of Bull Run, which furnished the Confederates a comparatively good, though by no means a strategically satisfactory, line of defensive fighting.
There are not that many men in all the regular standing armies of Europe combined, even if we include the unpaid hordes of Turkey and the military myriads of the armed camp known to geography as Russia.
Expert as he was in all that pertained to Mexican Gulf geography and hydrography, he perfectly knew that one of the principal ships assigned to him could in no wise be dragged into the Mississippi because of her excessive draught of water.
Then, of course, the diversified physicalgeography of Germany gives rise to equally diversified methods of land-culture; and out of these various circumstances grow numerous specific differences in manner and character.
Thus geography becomes a kind of natural science, deeply interesting to the pupil, and touching his imagination.
Who can say how much the knowledge of Geographyalone may stimulate a child or a youth to emigrate, and thus leave his immediate temptations and escape pressing poverty?
Natural history was only a catalogue, and geography a dictionary learned by heart.
The book-questions now to be presented will not be on purely political geography or merely arbitrary lists of names.
This Godfrey, who had got the geography of the river by heart, judged to be Peslovska, because it was one of the few trading stations which was not situated at a point where a tributary stream ran into the Yenesei.
Since Godfrey had been in Russia he had naturally studied the geography of the empire, and knew a good deal about the routes.
The evenings were spent principally in conversations about Siberia, Godfrey being eager to learn everything that he could about its geography and peoples.
I have learned a lot about the geography of Siberia from Alexis, and have got a good idea about all the rivers.
Lecturer on Physical and Regional Geography in Cambridge University.
The Physical Geographyof the Sea, and its Meteorology.
That man has materially modified the physical geography of the globe can not be denied.
Physical geography indicates a preparation of the earth for man, 257.
Physical geography also indicates, not only a state of preparation for man, but also a special adaptation of the fixed forms of the earth's surface for securing the perfect development of man according to the Divine ideal.
These, indeed, might be said less to be personal to himself than to be a feature in the literary geography of Europe.
Meanwhile I am going to give you a little lesson in history and geography suggested by my travels.
The Readers bear evidence on every page of the author's great experience of School Work, and of his thorough grasp of the conditions under which the elements of geography are taught in the standards.
He got the new ones as fast as they were printed, and he read them behind his geography at school, and it was because he had them that we got to read "The Red Avengers.
He sat there and pretended to be studying his geographylesson for Monday, but all he was doing was listening to hear the shot.
Now, this time-element connects geographical distribution with changes of physical geography and climate in geological times, and especially with the latest of these changes, viz.
Periods of great changes of physical geographyand of climate, and therefore of wide and general migrations, are also periods of great weedings-out of unfit forms.
That works of history and geography can be prepared in no other way, no person at all acquainted with the nature of such writings need be told.
We studied the history and geographyof a world only half explored.
This paper produced such an excellent impression that it was proposed to nominate the author president of the Physical Geography section.
He conceived the idea of writing a monumental physicalgeography of Northern Europe.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not.
We call mountains and prairies solid facts; but the geography of the mind is infinitely more stubborn.
Lucas, A Historical Geographyof the British Colonies, part ii, vol.
The treatment of physical geography will be much more even, to the great advantage of its students, when explanatory description is applied to all its parts.
Only in this way can the error of regarding geography as a purely observational natural science be corrected.
Such generalizations in geography correspond to the recognition in astronomy that planetary movements exemplify the law of gravitation; they are the Newton as against the Kepler of the subject.
It may be urged that in many geological discussions from which geography has taken profit, consideration is given to form-producing processes rather than to the forms produced.
The past history of land forms and the action upon them of various processes by which existing forms have been developed, are pertinent to geography only in so far as they aid the observation and description of the forms of to-day.
In the United States, it is only in the latter part of the century that the physical geography of the lands has gained a scientific standing, and the advantages that it now enjoys are geographical grafts upon a geological stock.
IN the 6th century a monk by the name of Cosmas wrote a kind of orthodoxgeography and astronomy combined.
But though comparatively little of the surface of the globe is now utterly unknown, yet even of those countries with which we are best acquainted, much remains to be ascertained, before the geography of them can justly be regarded as complete.
The additions, however, which he made togeography as a science, or to the sciences intimately connected with it, are more palpable and undisputed, than the extent and discoveries of his voyages.
The part that relates to the geography of middle Africa, is confused and unsatisfactory.
One of the results of this success was a maritime survey, or rather two partial surveys of the north part of Britain, from which the geography of that part of the island was compiled by Ptolemy.
Geography was thus established on its proper principles, and intimately connected with astronomical observations and mathematical science.
Remarks on the Geographyof the North East of, xvii.
His geography extended to the greater part of Poland and European Russia.
The geography of Ptolemy, and the description of Greece by Pausanias, are, as Malte Brun justly remarks, the last works in which the light of antiquity shines on geography.
Few travellers have done more forgeography than this author: antiquities, manners, customs, &c.
Fabulous geography constitutes a part of the mythology of every nation, and differs in each, because the ideas formed by every early nation respecting the form and nature of the earth are peculiar to itself.
Introductory remarks on theGeography of Ancient Italy.
A review of the politicalgeography of Greece at this period.
In ancient geography there is much care required to distinguish the fabulous from the true.
General Preliminary Remarks on the Geography of Asia.
History of the Roman state: Introductory remarks on the Geography of Ancient Italy 314 Period I.
True geography gradually comes to light as civilization increases, and discovery widens its horizon.
According to the political geography of the Romans they were, however, considered as provinces.
A development of the system of mathematical geography among the Greeks.
Since all events are considered in reference to the time and place in which they occur, it follows that geography and chronology are indispensable as auxiliary sciences in the study of history, especially the ancient.
Probability, geography and chronology, are not Lodge's strong points; we are in fact again in the country of nowhere, in an imaginary kingdom of France over which the usurper Torismond reigns.
Making an excuse for haste, I asked Zimmern to get the geography for me.
As I walked along the answer flashed into my mind--I would ask for a geography of the outer world.
I therefore decided to utilize the occasion by returning the geography which I had rescued from Bertha.
I have brought you a book," I said as I entered; and, not knowing what else to do, I went through the ridiculous operation of removing the geography from beneath my waistcoat.
Zimmern's precious geography was in the hands of the artful, child-eyed hypocrite who had so cleverly beguiled me with her rôle of heroic virtue.
However, she did not open the geography but laid it on the table, and stood staring at me with her child-like blue eyes.
And so the temptation to confess that I was not Karl Armstadt passed, and with its passing, I recalled the geography that I had gone to so much trouble to secure, and which still lay unopened upon the table.
I shall be pleased to get the geography for you at once.
But surely you are to see the Emperor in the Place in the Sun," said Marguerite when she had returned the geography to the secret shelf.
Yet I did not wish to admit to Zimmern my sensitiveness in the matter--and the geography had been kept overlong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
