Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Том 5R. S. Kirby, 1820 |
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Страница 112 - melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end*. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. Oh that men would praise the Lord
Страница 124 - His Royal Highness, for the better apprehending and bringing to justice the persons concerned in the atrocious murders, is hereby pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to promise His Majesty's most gracious pardon to any one of them, (except the person or persons who actually perpetrated the
Страница 85 - four days after; a straggling undisciplined tribe, consisting of males and females, but not so vigorous as the former. The night is their chief time of proceeding; but if it rains by day, they do not fail to profit by the occasion, and they continue to move forward in their slow uniform manner. When the sun shines
Страница 148 - place, for more than two miles, has this extraordinary property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal to it, the part so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The flame makes the soil hot, but does not consume it, nor affect what is near
Страница 86 - disturb them. But though they thus strive to be formidable to man, they are much more so to each other; for they are possessed of one most unsocial property, which is, that if any of them by accident is maimed in such a manner as to be incapable of proceeding - , the rest fall upon and
Страница 112 - the hold." The extraordinary preservation of this crew, as given above in the narrator's own language, corroborates the observations of the Royal Psalmist—" They that go down to the sea in ships—that do business in the great waters— these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and
Страница 255 - to Westminster. Some plaied at the football, as boldlie there, as if it had been on the drie land; diuerse of the court shot daily at pricks, set upon the Thames, and the people, both men and women, went on the Thames, in greater numbers, than in anie street of the citie of London. On the
Страница 367 - Sacred or Holy Tree,' which for many years has been preserved sound, entire, and fresh. Its leaves constantly distil such a quantity of water as is sufficient to furnish drink to every living creature in Hierro; nature having provided this remedy for the drought of the island. It is situated about a league from the sea.
Страница 36 - put their shoulders to the starts or shafts of the gin, and wrought it with astonishing expedition. By twelve o'clock, thirty-two persons, all that survived this dreadful calamity, were brought to day-light. The dead bodies of two boys, who were miserably scorched and shattered, were also brought up at this time; three boys, out of the
Страница 93 - these blessings are entailed on temperance, a life of labour, and a mind at ease. He lived to the amazing age of 169; was interred here, December 6, 1670, .and had this justice done to his memory,