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, Том 11World Publishing House, 1876 - 952 стор. |
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... feet three inches . Some months after , he was four feet eleven inches ; and at six , five feet , and bulky in proportion . His growth was so rapid , that every month his clothes required to be made longer and wider ; yet it was not ...
... feet three inches . Some months after , he was four feet eleven inches ; and at six , five feet , and bulky in proportion . His growth was so rapid , that every month his clothes required to be made longer and wider ; yet it was not ...
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... feet of height to Hercules , their first hero ; and in our days we have seen men eight feet high . The giant , who was shown in Rouen , in 1735 , measured eight feet some inches . The emperor Maximin was of that size . Shenkins and ...
... feet of height to Hercules , their first hero ; and in our days we have seen men eight feet high . The giant , who was shown in Rouen , in 1735 , measured eight feet some inches . The emperor Maximin was of that size . Shenkins and ...
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... feet and a half high , and that his bones were found in 1705 , near the banks of the Morderi , a little river at the ... feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 , thirty feet ; of another , in 1548 , near ...
... feet and a half high , and that his bones were found in 1705 , near the banks of the Morderi , a little river at the ... feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 , thirty feet ; of another , in 1548 , near ...
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... feet five nches . They wear long round beards . The women are some inches shorter than the men , who are thick and stout . Their colour is less black and swarthy than that of the natives ; their hair is short and cottony . They forge ...
... feet five nches . They wear long round beards . The women are some inches shorter than the men , who are thick and stout . Their colour is less black and swarthy than that of the natives ; their hair is short and cottony . They forge ...
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... feet upon the table as he sat , and car- rying his tea and toast between his great and second toe to his mouth , with as much facility as if his foot had been a hand , and his toes fingers . I put half a sheet of paper upon the floor ...
... feet upon the table as he sat , and car- rying his tea and toast between his great and second toe to his mouth , with as much facility as if his foot had been a hand , and his toes fingers . I put half a sheet of paper upon the floor ...
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The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities: Of Nature and Art ... John Platts Повний перегляд - 1880 |
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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 73 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.