The Cabinet of Curiosities: Or, Wonders of the World Displayed, Forming a Repository of Whatever is Remarkable in the Regions of Nature and Art, Extraordinary Events, and Eccentric BiographyJ. Limbird, 1824 - 432 oldal |
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... less than eight persons very conveniently ; they also discovered what before was unknown , that there was ori- ginally a statue on this pillar , of gigantic size , of which the foot and ancle are the only parts now remaining . The only ...
... less than eight persons very conveniently ; they also discovered what before was unknown , that there was ori- ginally a statue on this pillar , of gigantic size , of which the foot and ancle are the only parts now remaining . The only ...
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... less frequent ; and the Indians having been gradually accustomed to the terrific noises of the new volcano , had advanced towards the mountains to admire the streams of fire discharged from an infinity of great and small volcanic ...
... less frequent ; and the Indians having been gradually accustomed to the terrific noises of the new volcano , had advanced towards the mountains to admire the streams of fire discharged from an infinity of great and small volcanic ...
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... less than a quarter of an hour , devoured every part of the cat , tail , legs , claws , bones , and every thing . The man who laid the wager gave the fellow two guineas for doing it , and the shepherd appeared perfectly satis- fied with ...
... less than a quarter of an hour , devoured every part of the cat , tail , legs , claws , bones , and every thing . The man who laid the wager gave the fellow two guineas for doing it , and the shepherd appeared perfectly satis- fied with ...
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... less courage than he had shewn on the former occasion . Under these circumstances , a report was made to the public minister , who or dered bread , water , wine , and soup , to be taken daily to his cell , and placed conspicuously in ...
... less courage than he had shewn on the former occasion . Under these circumstances , a report was made to the public minister , who or dered bread , water , wine , and soup , to be taken daily to his cell , and placed conspicuously in ...
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... less beautiful ; that is to say , not so fresh when awake as when asleep . He could with difficulty lift his eyelids , and in the open day , he scarcely receives light enough to direct his steps . I found also that he was deaf , and ...
... less beautiful ; that is to say , not so fresh when awake as when asleep . He could with difficulty lift his eyelids , and in the open day , he scarcely receives light enough to direct his steps . I found also that he was deaf , and ...
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117. oldal - And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
4. oldal - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
196. oldal - ... steadfastly upon them, and, in all probability, he will see the singular spectacle of his own shadow extending to the length of five or six hundred feet, at the distance of about two miles before him.
424. oldal - ... with brick lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick of fourteen inches long lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them.
423. oldal - And indeed all his neighbours grounds and royalties were free to him, who bestowed all his time on these sports, but what he borrowed to caress his neighbours wives and daughters ; there being not a woman in all his walks of the degree of a yeoman's wife or under, and under the age of forty, but it was extremely her fault, if he was not intimately acquainted with her.
296. oldal - I could trace, though not distinguish, their mutual attacks. They soon reappeared on the surface twisted together, as in their first onset; but the black snake seemed to retain its wonted superiority, for its head was exactly fixed above that of the other, which it incessantly pressed down under the water, until it was stifled, and sunk. The victor no sooner perceived its enemy incapable of farther resistance, than abandoning it to the current, it returned on shore and disappeared.
296. oldal - ... great folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly -outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected superiority; it acquired two great folds likewise, which necessarily extended the body of its adversary in proportion as it had contracted its own.
318. oldal - ... to put them more on a level, Jeffery with the first fire shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner, by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary. He probably did not...
4. oldal - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
117. oldal - Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion! put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city!