The elements of Greek grammar

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Page 3 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 7 - CONTENTS : The Planets ; are they inhabited Worlds ? — Weather Prognostics — Popular Fallacies in Questions of Physical Science — Latitudes and Longitudes — Lunar Influences — Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars — Railway Accidents — Light — Common Things : — Air — Locomotion in the United States — Cometary Influences — Common Things: Water— The Potter's Art— Common Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon — Common Things :...
Page 5 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Abridged from the larger Dictionary. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. cloth. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Page 7 - Stellar Universe — The Tides — Colour — Common Things: Man — Magnifying Glasses — Instinct and Intelligence — The Solar Microscope — The Camera Lucida — The Magic Lantern — The Camera Obscura — The Microscope — The White Ants: their Manners and Habits — The Surface of the Earth, or First Notions of Geography — Science and Poetry — The Bee — Steam Navigation — Electro-Motive Power — Thunder, Lightning, and the Aurora Borealis...
Page 7 - Things. — Fire. Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress. The Moon. Common Things,— The Earth. The Electric Telegraph. Terrestrial Heat. The Sun. Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Micrometric Apparatus.
Page 4 - A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest With Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., Editor of the Dictionaries of "Greek and Roman Antiquities," "Biography and Mythology," and
Page 8 - Containing : How to Observe the Heavens— Latitudes and Longitudes — The Earth — The Sun — The Moon— The Planets: are they Inhabited?— The New Planets — Leverrier and Adams's Planet — The Tides — Lunar Influences — and the Stellar Universe — Light — Comets — Cometary Influences — Eclipses — Terrestrial Rotation — Lunar Rotation — Astronomical Instruments. (From " The Museum of Science and Art.") 182 Illustrations.
Page 5 - Numismatic Manual: or. Guide to the Collection and Study of Greek, Roman, and English Coins. Illustrated by Engravings of many hundred types, by means of which even imperfect and obliterated pieces may be easily deciphered.
Page 8 - Part I. Is. 6d. 1. Mechanic Powers. 2. Machinery. 3. Watch and Clock Work. Part II. Is. 6d. 4. Elements of Machinery. 5. Motion and Force. 6. Steam Engine. Part III. Is. 6d. 7. Hydrostatics. 8. Hydraulics. 9. Pneumatics.
Page 5 - Second Edition. 8vo. 15s. cloth. Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mytholosy, and Geography. Abridged from the larger Dictionary. Illustrated by 200 Engravings on Wood. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. cloth. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. By various Writers. Illustrated with Woodcuts of Coins, Flans of Cities, etc.

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