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... Queens , & c . in France 2686 Drury , Robert , life and fingular adventures of 2949 Day , Mr. Daniel , memoirs of , founder of Fairlop fair 3041 Davis , Mrs. Mary , the celebrated horned woman 3112 Dilly , Efq . Charles , memoirs of ...
... Queens , & c . in France 2686 Drury , Robert , life and fingular adventures of 2949 Day , Mr. Daniel , memoirs of , founder of Fairlop fair 3041 Davis , Mrs. Mary , the celebrated horned woman 3112 Dilly , Efq . Charles , memoirs of ...
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... Queens , & c . in France 2949 ngular adventures of 3041 s of , founder of Fairlop fair 3112 elebrated horned woman 3133 oirs of 3166 c . of 3184 45 fcription of 3041 igin of 3066 3144 Old Parr 76 2928 t of the Stockwell 2969 he ...
... Queens , & c . in France 2949 ngular adventures of 3041 s of , founder of Fairlop fair 3112 elebrated horned woman 3133 oirs of 3166 c . of 3184 45 fcription of 3041 igin of 3066 3144 Old Parr 76 2928 t of the Stockwell 2969 he ...
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... 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 compofing ...
... 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 compofing ...
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... in energetic and truly martial language , Et moi auf , je fuis foldat Français ! Deformais je je n'arai plus d'autre moustache ! * Then placing the 2688 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & c . to a decree of the Confuls, the body of ...
... in energetic and truly martial language , Et moi auf , je fuis foldat Français ! Deformais je je n'arai plus d'autre moustache ! * Then placing the 2688 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & c . to a decree of the Confuls, the body of ...
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... into the grave upon a bed of quick - lime ; and a layer of the fame lime being laid upon it , the whole was filled up with earth . On On the fame day were discovered the remains of Charles 2690 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & c .
... into the grave upon a bed of quick - lime ; and a layer of the fame lime being laid upon it , the whole was filled up with earth . On On the fame day were discovered the remains of Charles 2690 DISINTERMENTS OF KINGS , QUEENS , & c .
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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.