The Wonders of the World, in Nature, Art, and Mind ...R. Sears, 1856 |
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... HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS . SECOND SERIES . CAREFULLY COMPILED FROM THE BEST SOURces , BY ROBERT SEARS . - 1992 ) cl 18434 NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY ROBERT SEARS , 181 WILLIAM - STREET . 1856 . TO NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 190383A ...
... HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS . SECOND SERIES . CAREFULLY COMPILED FROM THE BEST SOURces , BY ROBERT SEARS . - 1992 ) cl 18434 NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY ROBERT SEARS , 181 WILLIAM - STREET . 1856 . TO NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 190383A ...
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... hundred years of age . This old age is generally comfortable ; for the Mexicans and Peruvian Indians preserve their strength to the last . While I was at Lima , the Indian , Hilario Sari , died at the village of Chiguata , four leagues ...
... hundred years of age . This old age is generally comfortable ; for the Mexicans and Peruvian Indians preserve their strength to the last . While I was at Lima , the Indian , Hilario Sari , died at the village of Chiguata , four leagues ...
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... hundred and seventeen . This old Peruvian went , at the age of one hundred and thirty , a distance of from three to four leagues daily on foot . " Dr. Prichard , from various sources , collected a va riety of remarkable instances of ...
... hundred and seventeen . This old Peruvian went , at the age of one hundred and thirty , a distance of from three to four leagues daily on foot . " Dr. Prichard , from various sources , collected a va riety of remarkable instances of ...
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... hundred and fifty miles ; and Malte Brun relates , that , in 1696 , two canoes containing thirty persons were thrown by storms and contrary winds upon one of the Philippines , eight hundred miles from their own islands . Kotzebue also ...
... hundred and fifty miles ; and Malte Brun relates , that , in 1696 , two canoes containing thirty persons were thrown by storms and contrary winds upon one of the Philippines , eight hundred miles from their own islands . Kotzebue also ...
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... hundred persons of each sex , taken from the houses of industry at Amsterdam , were sent out as the nucleus of a ... hundred square miles ; and now about two hundred thousand square miles are covered with their flocks and herds . The ...
... hundred persons of each sex , taken from the houses of industry at Amsterdam , were sent out as the nucleus of a ... hundred square miles ; and now about two hundred thousand square miles are covered with their flocks and herds . The ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
183. oldal - ... from half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and two or three feet in length...
85. oldal - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
91. oldal - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
180. oldal - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
426. oldal - He who has sought renown about the world, and has reaped a full harvest of worldly favour, will find, after all, that there is no love, no admiration, no applause, so sweet to the soul as that which springs up in his native place.
63. oldal - Tis certain they have very fine natural voices; these were very agreeable. When the dance was over, four fair slaves came into the room with silver censers in their hands, and perfumed the air with amber, aloes-wood, and other scents. After this they served me coffee upon their knees in the finest japan china, with soucoups of silver, gilt. The lovely Fatima entertained me all this while in the most polite agreeable manner, calling me often Guzel sultanum, or the beautiful sultana...
101. oldal - One day, whilst lying down, a mocking-thrush alighted on the edge of a pitcher, made of the shell of a tortoise, which I held in my hand, and began very quietly to sip the water; it allowed me to lift it from the ground whilst seated on the vessel: I often tried, and very nearly succeeded, in catching these birds by their legs.
412. oldal - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
63. oldal - ... four basins with a pleasing sound. The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets, that seemed tumbling down. On a. sofa, raised three steps, and covered with fine Persian carpets, sat the...