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, 1807 - Characters and characteristics |
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Page 2200
... brought to king Clovis from heaven , on the first esta- blishment of the French monarchy . The maid of Orleans ftood by the king's fide dreffed in complete armour , and displaying her facred banner which had fo often confounded and ...
... brought to king Clovis from heaven , on the first esta- blishment of the French monarchy . The maid of Orleans ftood by the king's fide dreffed in complete armour , and displaying her facred banner which had fo often confounded and ...
Page 2202
... brought in her military habit before the ecclefiaftical court at Rouen ; but though the trial lafted two months , and he was examined twice every week , they were not able to fix upon her any crime that merited either chains or death ...
... brought in her military habit before the ecclefiaftical court at Rouen ; but though the trial lafted two months , and he was examined twice every week , they were not able to fix upon her any crime that merited either chains or death ...
Page 2227
... brought forward many scions of genius , that without such help would never perhaps have emerged into light . The pleafing thought , as Dean Swift obferves , To fee their works iffue out in print , Fresh as new farthings from the mint ...
... brought forward many scions of genius , that without such help would never perhaps have emerged into light . The pleafing thought , as Dean Swift obferves , To fee their works iffue out in print , Fresh as new farthings from the mint ...
Page 2229
... brought out a collection of Apparitional hiftories prefaced by an in- genious argument prepared to convince the world of the reality of " the vifits from the world of fpirits , " the title of the book , but beyond that he did little ...
... brought out a collection of Apparitional hiftories prefaced by an in- genious argument prepared to convince the world of the reality of " the vifits from the world of fpirits , " the title of the book , but beyond that he did little ...
Page 2243
... brought up a baker , but , for some reasons which it is unnecessary to enter into , he was now in the service of Mr. Blight , as a kind of overfeer or fuperintendant in the fhipping bufinefs . We must here mention that Mr. Blight had ...
... brought up a baker , but , for some reasons which it is unnecessary to enter into , he was now in the service of Mr. Blight , as a kind of overfeer or fuperintendant in the fhipping bufinefs . We must here mention that Mr. Blight had ...
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Page 2374 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns and roofed by the bottoms of those, which have been broke off in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
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Page 2285 - ... of both which sciences his knowledge was entirely confined to theory. Even physic was not without a charm to allure his imagination, and he would talk of Galen, Hippocrates, and Paracelsus, with all the confidence and familiarity of a modern empiric.
Page 2613 - Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said, he should think himself singularly fortunate to be trusted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out.
Page 2352 - She might be about twenty- four or five years of age, a time of life when the bloom of beauty has generally fled the cheek in India ; but...
Page 2442 - Martin's making his i : mediate efcape, and no creature fhould know from Mr. Wilkes how the affair happened. Upon this they parted ; but Mr. Martin came up again in two or three minutes to Mr. Wilkes, offering him a fecond time his affiftance ; but Mr.
Page 2357 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
Page 2405 - ... merely by throwing open, for a moment, a door opening into some passage from whence fresh air may be had, and the upper part of a window; or by opening the upper part of one window, and the lower part of another.