Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... remarkable echoes known -Extra- ordinary instances of prolonged transmission of sound . TH Puzzles . 281 HE utility as well as the entertainment of puzzles ; their solution exercise for the mind as gymnastics are for the body ...
... remarkable echoes known -Extra- ordinary instances of prolonged transmission of sound . TH Puzzles . 281 HE utility as well as the entertainment of puzzles ; their solution exercise for the mind as gymnastics are for the body ...
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... Remarkable equestrian performances . - Banks's horse Morocco , referred to in Shakspeare's Love's Labor Lost , I. 2. - Combination lock . - Wonderful rapidity in the manufacture of cloth . - Difference between the value of crude mate ...
... Remarkable equestrian performances . - Banks's horse Morocco , referred to in Shakspeare's Love's Labor Lost , I. 2. - Combination lock . - Wonderful rapidity in the manufacture of cloth . - Difference between the value of crude mate ...
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... remarkable longevity . - Methods and means of recognition in doubtful cases . — An old form of matrimonial vow . - Composition during dreams . - Singular facts about sleep . - Effects of opium and East Indian hemp on the brain ...
... remarkable longevity . - Methods and means of recognition in doubtful cases . — An old form of matrimonial vow . - Composition during dreams . - Singular facts about sleep . - Effects of opium and East Indian hemp on the brain ...
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... remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . - A tilt between Oxford and Cambridge . - Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass . - The embassador's delicate flattery . Cowper's conversion of uncomplimentary ...
... remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . - A tilt between Oxford and Cambridge . - Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass . - The embassador's delicate flattery . Cowper's conversion of uncomplimentary ...
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... remarkable case of suspended animation . - Questions for the discussion of the learned . - Preservation of dead bodies . - The folly of embalming corpses . - A whimsical will . - The life tripod . - The impre- catory epitaph of ...
... remarkable case of suspended animation . - Questions for the discussion of the learned . - Preservation of dead bodies . - The folly of embalming corpses . - A whimsical will . - The life tripod . - The impre- catory epitaph of ...
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