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... respect to us , who had been labouring four days through extreme heat , without receiving the least inoisture , and were now almost expiring for the want of it . " We could not help looking on this as liquor fent from heaven to comfort ...
... respect to us , who had been labouring four days through extreme heat , without receiving the least inoisture , and were now almost expiring for the want of it . " We could not help looking on this as liquor fent from heaven to comfort ...
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... respect to birth , & c . & c . ) having lately appeared in another work , as devoid of truth as it is of novelty ; but VERACITY being the bafis of our undertaking , we are determined rather to delay the biography of fingular and ...
... respect to birth , & c . & c . ) having lately appeared in another work , as devoid of truth as it is of novelty ; but VERACITY being the bafis of our undertaking , we are determined rather to delay the biography of fingular and ...
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... respect to truffes , but also to ladies as a dentist and furgeon , in removing tumors , wens , and other enemies to beauty , as will appear by the following curious advertise- VOL . II . No. 13 . 4 K ments , ments , copies of which we ...
... respect to truffes , but also to ladies as a dentist and furgeon , in removing tumors , wens , and other enemies to beauty , as will appear by the following curious advertise- VOL . II . No. 13 . 4 K ments , ments , copies of which we ...
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... respect to per- fons , Sir Walter Raleigh certainly fhould , almoft more than any other man , have been protected from the fcurrility and abuse with which he was loaded ; but it was the nature of the government , and temper of the times ...
... respect to per- fons , Sir Walter Raleigh certainly fhould , almoft more than any other man , have been protected from the fcurrility and abuse with which he was loaded ; but it was the nature of the government , and temper of the times ...
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... respecting the poison of the fala- mander . Gefner proved by experiments that it did not bite , whatever means were used to irritate it ; and Wurf- bainus fhewed that it might safely be touched , and that one might without danger drink ...
... respecting the poison of the fala- mander . Gefner proved by experiments that it did not bite , whatever means were used to irritate it ; and Wurf- bainus fhewed that it might safely be touched , and that one might without danger drink ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.