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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... king of Ota- heite , to the Missionary Society , 773 Libraries , celebrated , 760 Light produced under water , 850 Mirage , account of , 521 Miners , curious effects of , 833 Mite , the cheese , curiosities respecting , 358 Mock suns ...
... king of Ota- heite , to the Missionary Society , 773 Libraries , celebrated , 760 Light produced under water , 850 Mirage , account of , 521 Miners , curious effects of , 833 Mite , the cheese , curiosities respecting , 358 Mock suns ...
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... king of Sparta . Hairs are said to have been found in the breasts of women , and to have occasioned the distemper called trichiasis ; but some authors are of opinion , that these are small worms , and not hairs . There have been ...
... king of Sparta . Hairs are said to have been found in the breasts of women , and to have occasioned the distemper called trichiasis ; but some authors are of opinion , that these are small worms , and not hairs . There have been ...
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... king of Scotland , measured eleven , feet and a half ; and Jacob Le Maire , in his voyage to the Straits of Magellan , reports , that on the 17th of December , 1615 , they found at Port Desire , several graves covered with stones ; and ...
... king of Scotland , measured eleven , feet and a half ; and Jacob Le Maire , in his voyage to the Straits of Magellan , reports , that on the 17th of December , 1615 , they found at Port Desire , several graves covered with stones ; and ...
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... king of the Teutones , found on the 11th of January , 1613 , twenty - five feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 , thirty feet ; of another , in 1548 , near Palermo , thirty feet ; of another , in 1550 ...
... king of the Teutones , found on the 11th of January , 1613 , twenty - five feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 , thirty feet ; of another , in 1548 , near Palermo , thirty feet ; of another , in 1550 ...
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... king's gigantic porter . At last , being provoked by Mr. Crofts , a young gentleman of family , a challenge ensued : and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt , the little creature was so enraged , that a real ...
... king's gigantic porter . At last , being provoked by Mr. Crofts , a young gentleman of family , a challenge ensued : and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt , the little creature was so enraged , that a real ...
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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.