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, 1808 |
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... King EGBERT the Great , first King of all England , to the Present Time : Confifting of a great Variety of very eccentric Characters famous for long Life , Coll rage , Cowardice , extraordinary Strength , Avarice , aftonishing Fortitude ...
... King EGBERT the Great , first King of all England , to the Present Time : Confifting of a great Variety of very eccentric Characters famous for long Life , Coll rage , Cowardice , extraordinary Strength , Avarice , aftonishing Fortitude ...
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... Kings , Queens , & c . in France 2686 Drury , Robert , life and fingular adventures of 2949 Day , Mr. Daniel ... King of Pruffia , life of Longevity , hiftory of human 3112 2811 2944 2973 3098 3144 Lambert , Daniel , his aftonishing ...
... Kings , Queens , & c . in France 2686 Drury , Robert , life and fingular adventures of 2949 Day , Mr. Daniel ... King of Pruffia , life of Longevity , hiftory of human 3112 2811 2944 2973 3098 3144 Lambert , Daniel , his aftonishing ...
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... KINGS , QUEENS , PRINCES , PRINCESSES , and other Illuftrious Perfons who had been interred at the Abbey of ST . DENIS , in FRANCE , during a previous Period of five hundred Years . N Saturday the 12th of October , 1793 , the numbers ...
... KINGS , QUEENS , PRINCES , PRINCESSES , and other Illuftrious Perfons who had been interred at the Abbey of ST . DENIS , in FRANCE , during a previous Period of five hundred Years . N Saturday the 12th of October , 1793 , the numbers ...
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... king of England , who died 1669 , aged 60 years . The fecond was Henriette Stuart , daughter of Charles I. king of England , and first wife of Monfieur , brother of Louis XIV . who died in 1670 , at the age of 26 years . After removing ...
... king of England , who died 1669 , aged 60 years . The fecond was Henriette Stuart , daughter of Charles I. king of England , and first wife of Monfieur , brother of Louis XIV . who died in 1670 , at the age of 26 years . After removing ...
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... king Dagobert , who died in 638. In a wooden cheft about two feet long , lined with lead on the infide , were found the bones of this prince , and those of Nanthilde his wife , who died in 642 . The bones of this pair were wrapped in ...
... king Dagobert , who died in 638. In a wooden cheft about two feet long , lined with lead on the infide , were found the bones of this prince , and those of Nanthilde his wife , who died in 642 . The bones of this pair were wrapped in ...
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Страница 2920 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Страница 2921 - I have shown that his views were more generous and extensive. Mirth coloured his pictures, but benevolence designed them. He smiled like Socrates, that men might not be offended at his lectures, and might learn to laugh at their own follies.
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