Encyclopedia of Natural and Artificial Wonders and Curiosities: Including a Full and Authentic Description of Remarkable and Astonishing Places, Beings, Animals, Customs, Experiments, Phenomena, Etc., of Both Ancient and Modern Times, in All Parts of the Globe : Comprising Correct Accounts of the Most Wonderful Freaks of Nature and Arts of Man, Volumen11World Publishing House, 1876 - 952 páginas |
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... miles north of Brechin , and 7 from Montrose , went to a market called Tar- renty - fair , where he had a large sum ... mile from home , attacked and attempted to rob him . Whereupon the boy EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS . 71.
... miles north of Brechin , and 7 from Montrose , went to a market called Tar- renty - fair , where he had a large sum ... mile from home , attacked and attempted to rob him . Whereupon the boy EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS . 71.
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... miles in forty - eight hours ; but will hold out for a month at the rate of forty or fifty miles a day , with cheerfulness and alacrity . I performed many long journeys upon an elephant given by Ragobah to Colonel Keating . Nothing ...
... miles in forty - eight hours ; but will hold out for a month at the rate of forty or fifty miles a day , with cheerfulness and alacrity . I performed many long journeys upon an elephant given by Ragobah to Colonel Keating . Nothing ...
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... miles :) yet the eyes have been preserved , and the pupil of the left eye can still be distinguished . The point of the lower lip had been gnawed ; and the upper one having been destroyed , the teeth could be perceived . The brain was ...
... miles :) yet the eyes have been preserved , and the pupil of the left eye can still be distinguished . The point of the lower lip had been gnawed ; and the upper one having been destroyed , the teeth could be perceived . The brain was ...
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... miles south - east of Hartford , in the Ohio county : length from the end of the nose to the buttock , five feet , and a tail two feet long ; under the jaw the colour was black , with white spots 182 CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS.
... miles south - east of Hartford , in the Ohio county : length from the end of the nose to the buttock , five feet , and a tail two feet long ; under the jaw the colour was black , with white spots 182 CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS.
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... miles from Blenheim , there is a portrait in the dining - room of Sir Henry Lee , by Johnston , with that of a mastiff dog which saved his life . A servant had formed the design of assassinating his master , and robbing the house ; but ...
... miles from Blenheim , there is a portrait in the dining - room of Sir Henry Lee , by Johnston , with that of a mastiff dog which saved his life . A servant had formed the design of assassinating his master , and robbing the house ; but ...
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Página 29 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 73 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 351 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Página 184 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Página 73 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Página 753 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 13 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and -the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty- maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 351 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Página 384 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Página 13 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.