The Cabinet of Curiosities: Or, Wonders of the World Displayed, Forming a Repository of Whatever is Remarkable in the Regions of Nature and Art, Extraordinary Events, and Eccentric BiographyJ. Limbird, 1824 - 432 pages |
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... nearly two hundred leagues from land , the party felt at a loss how to steer . Eight days and nights passed in miserable succession without seeing land , the party all the while exposed to the scorching ' heat of the sun by day , and to ...
... nearly two hundred leagues from land , the party felt at a loss how to steer . Eight days and nights passed in miserable succession without seeing land , the party all the while exposed to the scorching ' heat of the sun by day , and to ...
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... nearly threw him out of bed . The attempt to use the bath was equally unsuccessful ; on enter- ing it , the convulsive breathing became so distressing , as to com- pel him to spring out hastily , to save himself , as he expressed it ...
... nearly threw him out of bed . The attempt to use the bath was equally unsuccessful ; on enter- ing it , the convulsive breathing became so distressing , as to com- pel him to spring out hastily , to save himself , as he expressed it ...
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... nearly smothered us with dust . It blew so violently , that the noise of the thunder was fre- quently drowned by the whist- ling of the wind in the trees and buildings . The total darkness lasted about ten minutes ; when at length it ...
... nearly smothered us with dust . It blew so violently , that the noise of the thunder was fre- quently drowned by the whist- ling of the wind in the trees and buildings . The total darkness lasted about ten minutes ; when at length it ...
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... nearly half a century , has been daily and hourly em- ployed in alternately counting the wages of his villainies , and in laughing at the follies of a cheated multitude , it would be no unfit opportunity for taxing the risibility of our ...
... nearly half a century , has been daily and hourly em- ployed in alternately counting the wages of his villainies , and in laughing at the follies of a cheated multitude , it would be no unfit opportunity for taxing the risibility of our ...
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... nearly ninety years of age ; but of this , as well as her family and name , she is always silent . She seems to have chosen out the spot where she now lives , to pass the remainder of her days unknown to her friends , and in a great ...
... nearly ninety years of age ; but of this , as well as her family and name , she is always silent . She seems to have chosen out the spot where she now lives , to pass the remainder of her days unknown to her friends , and in a great ...
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Page 117 - And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
Page 4 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 196 - ... steadfastly upon them, and, in all probability, he will see the singular spectacle of his own shadow extending to the length of five or six hundred feet, at the distance of about two miles before him.
Page 424 - ... with brick lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick of fourteen inches long lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them.
Page 423 - And indeed all his neighbours grounds and royalties were free to him, who bestowed all his time on these sports, but what he borrowed to caress his neighbours wives and daughters ; there being not a woman in all his walks of the degree of a yeoman's wife or under, and under the age of forty, but it was extremely her fault, if he was not intimately acquainted with her.
Page 296 - I could trace, though not distinguish, their mutual attacks. They soon reappeared on the surface twisted together, as in their first onset; but the black snake seemed to retain its wonted superiority, for its head was exactly fixed above that of the other, which it incessantly pressed down under the water, until it was stifled, and sunk. The victor no sooner perceived its enemy incapable of farther resistance, than abandoning it to the current, it returned on shore and disappeared.
Page 296 - ... great folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly -outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected superiority; it acquired two great folds likewise, which necessarily extended the body of its adversary in proportion as it had contracted its own.
Page 318 - ... to put them more on a level, Jeffery with the first fire shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner, by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary. He probably did not...
Page 4 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 117 - Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion! put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city!