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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Page 2681
... gave way and fell into the valley , which feparates the lake of Zug from that of Lauwertz , overwhelming the whole of the villages of Goldan , Rhothan , Bufingen , Huzloch , three parts of that of Lauwertz , and fome houfes in the ...
... gave way and fell into the valley , which feparates the lake of Zug from that of Lauwertz , overwhelming the whole of the villages of Goldan , Rhothan , Bufingen , Huzloch , three parts of that of Lauwertz , and fome houfes in the ...
Page 2686
... , the numbers compofing the Municipality of Franciade , ( formerly St. Denis ) , Denis ) , gave the neceffary orders for carrying into 2686 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & C . Schwitz and Arth; in collecting the ruins of the ...
... , the numbers compofing the Municipality of Franciade , ( formerly St. Denis ) , Denis ) , gave the neceffary orders for carrying into 2686 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & C . Schwitz and Arth; in collecting the ruins of the ...
Page 2687
... gave the neceffary orders for carrying into execution the decree of the National Convention relative to the difin- terment of the coffins depofited in the Abbey of St. , Denis , which were to be ftripped of the lead which they contained ...
... gave the neceffary orders for carrying into execution the decree of the National Convention relative to the difin- terment of the coffins depofited in the Abbey of St. , Denis , which were to be ftripped of the lead which they contained ...
Page 2694
... gave him great uneafinefs , on account of the high price of foap , and he wifhed beards to be in fashion , or the price of fhaving reduced . He once made a vow to himself , that as foon as he had accumulated 1000l . he would treat ...
... gave him great uneafinefs , on account of the high price of foap , and he wifhed beards to be in fashion , or the price of fhaving reduced . He once made a vow to himself , that as foon as he had accumulated 1000l . he would treat ...
Page 2697
... gave him a fum of money , and Tom went back to his native place , Higham - Ferrers , in Northamp tonshire . When he had spent his money he returned to London , and fet up the fmall - coal trade , notwithstanding his master was ftill ...
... gave him a fum of money , and Tom went back to his native place , Higham - Ferrers , in Northamp tonshire . When he had spent his money he returned to London , and fet up the fmall - coal trade , notwithstanding his master was ftill ...
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Page 3052 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Page 2823 - ... are kept, who has taken a cerastes with his naked hand from a number of others lying at the bottom of the tub, has put it upon his bare head, covered it with the common red cap he wears, then taken it out, put it in his breast, and tied it about his neck like a necklace ; after which it has been applied to a hen, and bit it, which has died in a few minutes...
Page 2817 - To you, who knew him, it cannot be necessary for me to expatiate on the independence of his integrity, his humanity, probity, or benevolence, which every living creature participated; on the affability of his...
Page 2869 - s hand in both his own. After evening prayers, when his grand-children were brought to his bed-side, he spoke to them separately, and exhorted them to continue to love each other, &c.
Page 2824 - They take the cerastes in their hands at all times, put them in their bosoms, and throw them to one another, as children do apples or balls, without having irritated them by this usage so much as to bite. The Arabs have not this secret...
Page 2704 - Ambaflador, who was of the fame Family, attefted more than once in Converfation, when he refided in England. Cornaro, who was the Author of the little Treatife I am mentioning, was of an infirm Conftitution, till about forty, when by obftinately...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 2797 - In the year 1742 certain members of the Royal Society of London, and of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, proposed that, in order to facilitate a comparison of the scientific operations carried on in the two countries, accurate standards of the measures and weights of both should be prepared and preserved in the archives of each of these societies. This proposition having been approved...
Page 2702 - Discourses, wherein he acquaints us with the irregularity of his youth, his reformation of manners, and the hopes he entertained of living a long time. Nor was he mistaken in his expectation, for he resigned his last breath without any agony, sitting in an elbow chair, being above a hundred years old.