The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All AgesCarleton, 1866 - 424 стор. |
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The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions ... Phineas Taylor Barnum Перегляд фрагмента - 1865 |
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Adams adulterated advertising Apollonius appearance audience Barnum believe Boehmer brother Cagliostro called cardinal cent CHAPTER cloth cocculus indicus colored Company corsned crowds DAVENPORT BROTHERS Davenports devil divine doctor dollars excitement fact fellow flour France friends gave gentleman ghost give Golden Pigeons grizzly Grizzly Adams half hand haunted house heard heathen Hock wine human humbug hundred impostor Jewett Joanna Southcott kind lady liquor living look matter medium mediumship Miscegenation morning mysteries necklace novel Old Grizzly oracle ordeal P. T. BARNUM paper person photographer pills poor pretended Queen replied Rolleum sell sold sometimes soon sort South Sea South Sea Bubble South Sea Company spirits spiritualists story street Sunday Mercury superstitions suppose things thousand tion told took tulip vrow whole witch witchcraft woman wonderful word York
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Сторінка 348 - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Сторінка 338 - All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as rams' horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.
Сторінка 266 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they understand, The more th
Сторінка 234 - In this unusual addition to our Journal, we have the happiness of making known to the British public, and thence to the whole civilized world, recent discoveries in Astronomy which will build an imperishable monument to the age in which we live. and confer upon the present generation of Ihe human race a proud distinction through all future time.
Сторінка 289 - Foot! foot! foot! is fast asleep! Thumb! thumb! thumb! in spittle we steep: Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus.
Сторінка 392 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Сторінка 241 - They averaged four feet in height, were covered, except on the face, with short an.d glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs, from the top of the shoulders to the calves of the legs.
Сторінка 192 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Сторінка 47 - Many persons have such a horror of being taken in, or such an elevated opinion of their own acuteness, that they believe everything to be a sham, and in this way are continually humbugging themselves.
Сторінка x - We sometimes meet a person who professes that there is no virtue ; that every man has his price, and every woman hers ; that any statement from anybody is just as likely to be false as true, and that the only way to decide which, is to consider whether truth or a lie was likely to have paid best in that particular case. Religion he thinks one of the smartest business dodges extant, a firstrate investment, and by all odds the most respectable disguise that a lying or swindling business man can wear.