The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine:: Being a Complete Repository of All the Wonders, Curiosities, and Rarities of Nature and Art, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Year ... Including, Among the Greatest Variety of Other Valuable Matter in this Line of Literature (from an Illustrated Edition of the Rev. Mr. James Granger's Celebrated Biographical History) Memoirs and Portraits of the Most Singular and Remarkable Persons ...R. S. Kirby, 1804 |
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... Characters , remarkable and Surprising Volcanos , Cataracts , Ca- for eating , drinking , fatting , walking , verns , Waterfalls , Whirlpools , and other & c . memorable Exploits , amazing De- ftupendous Phenomena of the Earth ...
... Characters , remarkable and Surprising Volcanos , Cataracts , Ca- for eating , drinking , fatting , walking , verns , Waterfalls , Whirlpools , and other & c . memorable Exploits , amazing De- ftupendous Phenomena of the Earth ...
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... Character , a fingular , near Manchester - fquare Customs , fingular in England and Wales Cromwell , Oliver , character of -Singular Anecdote of 1102 609 625 628 640 644 669 711 782 792 796 864 926 · 935 944 995 1051 1098 600 608 685 ...
... Character , a fingular , near Manchester - fquare Customs , fingular in England and Wales Cromwell , Oliver , character of -Singular Anecdote of 1102 609 625 628 640 644 669 711 782 792 796 864 926 · 935 944 995 1051 1098 600 608 685 ...
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... wretched condition . The celebrated poet Benjamin Johnfon was a brick layer . That eminent architect Inigo Jones , was a journeyman carpenter . Henry Henry Jones , an Irish dramatic writer , was a AND REMARKABLE CHARACTERS . 589.
... wretched condition . The celebrated poet Benjamin Johnfon was a brick layer . That eminent architect Inigo Jones , was a journeyman carpenter . Henry Henry Jones , an Irish dramatic writer , was a AND REMARKABLE CHARACTERS . 589.
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... Archbishop of Canterbury , was born of poor parents . Willegis , Archbishop of Mentz , was the fon of a wheci- wright . VOL . II . No. 13 . 4 G N. B. N. B. We fhall occafionally give ample accounts of many AND REMARKABLE CHARACTERS . 593.
... Archbishop of Canterbury , was born of poor parents . Willegis , Archbishop of Mentz , was the fon of a wheci- wright . VOL . II . No. 13 . 4 G N. B. N. B. We fhall occafionally give ample accounts of many AND REMARKABLE CHARACTERS . 593.
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... characters included in the above lift . THE A Remarkable MUSICAL PARROT . HE celebrated composer Vogler is a great friend of Birds , and has always a number of them in the room where he composes among others he was complimented with a ...
... characters included in the above lift . THE A Remarkable MUSICAL PARROT . HE celebrated composer Vogler is a great friend of Birds , and has always a number of them in the room where he composes among others he was complimented with a ...
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Էջ 993 - The ass was restless, and the goats kept bleating for some days, after which they heard no more of them. Two of the goats, however, being left alive and near the manger, they felt them, and found that one of them was big, and would kid, as they recollected, about the middle of April ; the other gave milk, wherewith they preserved their lives.
Էջ 991 - April proving hot, and the snow beginning to soften, he again used his utmost endeavours to recover his effects, and to bury, as he thought, the remains of his family. He made new openings, and threw in earth to melt the snow, which on the 24th of April was greatly diminished. He broke through ice six English feet thick, with iron bars, thrust down a long pole and touched the ground ; but evening coming on, he desisted.
Էջ 1085 - The evidence came out full, the jury brought in <• their verdict that the prisoner was guilty, and the whole assembly waited the sentence of the president of the court (which he happened to be that day) with great suspense.
Էջ 847 - Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them.
Էջ 600 - Brazil; and though he believed nothing of it, and it was a good way off, yet he had so much curiosity as to send for it: that it was a very great and a very old one; and when it came first into the room where the prince was, with a great many Dutchmen about him, it said presently, What a company of white men are here! They asked it, what it thought that man was, pointing to the prince. It answered, Some General or other.
Էջ 1085 - ... universal affability, he was admitted to a share of the government of the town, and rose from one post to another, till at length he was chosen chief magistrate.
Էջ 970 - To save fire, he would walk about the remains of an old green-house, or sit with a servant in the kitchen. During the harvest he would amuse himself with going into the fields to glean the corn, on the grounds of his own tenants; and they used to leave a little more than common to please the old gentleman, who was as eager after it as any pauper in the parish.
Էջ 687 - When the day broke, and the gentlemen found that no intreaties could prevail to get the door opened, it occurred to one of them (I think to Mr. Secretary Cooke), to make a search for me, in hopes I might have influence enough to gain a release from this scene of misery. Accordingly Messrs. Lushington and Walcot undertook the search, and by my shirt discovered me under the dead upon the platform.
Էջ 993 - On the sixth day the boy sickened, and six days after desired his mother, who all this time had held him in her lap, to lay him at his length in the manger. She did so, and taking him by the hand, felt it was very cold...
Էջ 658 - ... back into the hole of the rock ; but, if left undisturbed for about four minutes, it would come gradually in sight, expanding, though at first very cautiously, its seeming leaves, till at last it appeared in its former bloom. However, it would again recoil with a surprising quickness, when my hand came within a small distance of it.