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, 1802 |
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... England , as well as to Mr. BROMLEY'S Copious Catalogue of Portraits from King Egbert the Great to the prefent Time , in which are included thofe preferved and communicated by the Earl of Oxford , Mr. Evelyn , Mr. Amos , Mr. Nicholls ...
... England , as well as to Mr. BROMLEY'S Copious Catalogue of Portraits from King Egbert the Great to the prefent Time , in which are included thofe preferved and communicated by the Earl of Oxford , Mr. Evelyn , Mr. Amos , Mr. Nicholls ...
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... England , at Saville - House , Leicef- ter Square , where thofe Readers who wish for ocular demonstration of the fact may be gratified . July 28 , 1802 , W. G. A moft aftonishing Event which took place in December , 1799 . at Clough ...
... England , at Saville - House , Leicef- ter Square , where thofe Readers who wish for ocular demonstration of the fact may be gratified . July 28 , 1802 , W. G. A moft aftonishing Event which took place in December , 1799 . at Clough ...
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... England , than to rely on any other account whatever of this extraordinary man . " The Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Arundell and Surrey , Earl Marshal of England , & c . being lately in Shrop fhire to vifit fome lands and manors ...
... England , than to rely on any other account whatever of this extraordinary man . " The Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Arundell and Surrey , Earl Marshal of England , & c . being lately in Shrop fhire to vifit fome lands and manors ...
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... England , fays , that " At an hundred and twenty he married Catharine Mil- ton , his fecond wife , whom he got with child ; and was , after that æra of his life , employed in threshing , and other husbandry work . When he was about an ...
... England , fays , that " At an hundred and twenty he married Catharine Mil- ton , his fecond wife , whom he got with child ; and was , after that æra of his life , employed in threshing , and other husbandry work . When he was about an ...
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... England that made art fupply the defects of nature , in learning perfons that were deaf and dumb to speak and write diftinctly and intelligibly ; as , for example , Mr. Nathaniel Whaly , born in North- ampton , of reputable parents ...
... England that made art fupply the defects of nature , in learning perfons that were deaf and dumb to speak and write diftinctly and intelligibly ; as , for example , Mr. Nathaniel Whaly , born in North- ampton , of reputable parents ...
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Страница 351 - ... less sure ; and strong suspicion the utmost that can possibly ensue upon it, while the chances would be tenfold against you. You 'will possibly be in doubt after the meeting, but it is quite necessary the outside should be a mask to the in. The family of the Bloods is not extinct, though they are not in my scheme.
Страница 349 - ... the world where your death has more than been wished for upon other motives. I know the world too well to trust this secret in any breast but my own. A few days determine me your friend or enemy. "FELTON. " You will apprehend that I mean you should be alone ; and depend upon it, that a discovery of any artifice in this affair will be fatal to you. My safety is insured by my silence, for confession only can condemn me.
Страница 348 - As I never had the honour to live among the great, the tenor of my proposals will not be very courtly; but let that be an argument to enforce a belief of what I am now going to write.
Страница 23 - ... ten o'clock. At one o'clock there was again put before him, five pounds of beef, and one pound of candles, with three bottles of porter, at which time he was locked up in the room, and sentries placed at the windows to prevent his throwing away any of his provisions.
Страница 481 - ... often, and in different parts of it. a bright pale flame, and very different from the deep red of the lava : this was occasioned by the burning of the trees that supported the vines. Soon after the beginning of this eruption, ashes fell thick at the foot of the mountain, all the way from Portici to the Torre del Greco ; and what is remarkable, although there were not at that time any clouds in the air, except those of smoke from the mountain, the ashes were wet, and accompanied with large drops...
Страница 323 - Ralph in their return over the water, that when he mentioned those particulars that were to gain him credit, the duke's colour changed, and he swore he could come to that knowledge only by the devil; for that those particulars were known only to himself and to one person more, who he was sure would never speak of them.
Страница 494 - These animals live not only in a kind of orderly society in their retreats in the mountains, but regularly once a year march down to the sea-side in a body of some millions at a time. As they multiply in great numbers, they...
Страница 566 - I therefore charged again with ball, and hit the bird under the throat, which made it mine. I accordingly ran up to seize it ; but even in death it was terrible, and defended itself...
Страница 234 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians...
Страница 346 - A number of those barbarians had for some time been employed on the left, in scalping and pillaging the dying and the dead that were left upon the field of battle ; • and above thirty of them were in full march to destroy Mr. Peyton. This gentleman knew he had no mercy to expect; for, should his life be spared for the present, they would have afterwards insisted...