The Wonders of the Little World: Or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, 2 tomasW. J. and J. Richardson, 1806 |
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... Sicily , upon the death of his father , showed himself exceeding merciful , and of a princely liberality ; he set at liberty three thousand persons that were under restraint for debt , making satisfaction to the cre- ditors himself . He ...
... Sicily , upon the death of his father , showed himself exceeding merciful , and of a princely liberality ; he set at liberty three thousand persons that were under restraint for debt , making satisfaction to the cre- ditors himself . He ...
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... Sicily , anno 1343 ; a woman of a beau- tiful body , and rare endowments of nature . She was first married to her cousin An- drew , a prince of royal extraction , and of a sweet and loving disposition ; but he being not able to satisfy ...
... Sicily , anno 1343 ; a woman of a beau- tiful body , and rare endowments of nature . She was first married to her cousin An- drew , a prince of royal extraction , and of a sweet and loving disposition ; but he being not able to satisfy ...
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... Sicily , came to Locris , the birth - place of his mother Doris ; there he took the most stately and capacious house in all the city : he caused all the rooms of it to be strewed with a sort of wild betony and roses ; and having utterly ...
... Sicily , came to Locris , the birth - place of his mother Doris ; there he took the most stately and capacious house in all the city : he caused all the rooms of it to be strewed with a sort of wild betony and roses ; and having utterly ...
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... Sicilian Lords and Gentlemen , begins , by their counsel and support , to build a strange design for the entrapping of all the French at once , and abolishing for ever their memory in Sicily . All which was so secretly carried on for ...
... Sicilian Lords and Gentlemen , begins , by their counsel and support , to build a strange design for the entrapping of all the French at once , and abolishing for ever their memory in Sicily . All which was so secretly carried on for ...
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... Sicily , and the kingdom of Naples , had reached yet further in his hopes , and intended for Greece ; he there fore sent his ambassadors to Alexius Angelus , the Greek emperor , to demand of him a mighty sum of gold as a tribute from ...
... Sicily , and the kingdom of Naples , had reached yet further in his hopes , and intended for Greece ; he there fore sent his ambassadors to Alexius Angelus , the Greek emperor , to demand of him a mighty sum of gold as a tribute from ...
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The Wonders of the Little World– Or, A General History of Man ..., 2 tomas Nathaniel Wanley Visos knygos peržiūra - 1806 |
The Wonders of the Little World– Or, A General History of Man ..., 2 tomas Nathaniel Wanley Visos knygos peržiūra - 1806 |
The Wonders of the Little World– Or, A General History of Man ..., 2 tomas Nathaniel Wanley Visos knygos peržiūra - 1806 |
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68 psl. - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
451 psl. - The rats gnawed his feet and clothes whilst asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats' flesh, by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered Him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids, and to divert himself would, now and then, sing and dance with them and his cats ; so that, by the care of Providence, and vigour of his youth, being now about thirty years old, he came at last to conquer all the inconveniences of his solitude,...
451 psl. - He built two huts with pimento trees, covered them with long grass, and lined them with the skins of goats, which he killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound ; and that being near spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento wood together upon his knee.
293 psl. - Wotton, dean of Canterbury, whom I formerly mentioned, being then ambassador in France, dreamed that his nephew, this Thomas Wotton, was inclined to be a party in such a project as, if he were not suddenly prevented, would turn both to the loss of his life, and ruin of his family. Doubtless the good dean did well know...
97 psl. - The vivacious vicar hereof living under King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, then a Protestant again. He had seen some martyrs burnt (two miles off) at Windsor, and found this fire too hot for his tender temper. This vicar being taxed by one for being a turncoat and an inconstant changeling, —
352 psl. - Presently Raleigh cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground ; whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with many suits, for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a footcloth.
352 psl. - However he at last climbed up by the stairs of his own desert. But his introduction into the court bare an elder date from this occasion : this captain Raleigh coming out of Ireland to the English court in good habit (his clothes being then a considerable part of his estate) found the queen walking, till, meeting with a plashy place, she seemed to scruple going thereon.
318 psl. - Berkshire had made, to which all the adjacent gentlemen were invited. When he went out, he took care to set the boy a double exercise in the Latin tongue, which he taught his children himself, with a strict charge not to stir out of the room till his return, well knowing the task he had set him would take up much longer time.
310 psl. - Rochester and the last of these entered into a formal engagement, not without ceremonies of religion, that if either of them died, he should appear, and give the other notice of the future state, if there was any ; but Mr.
318 psl. - Dryden took occasion to tell her that he had been calculating the child's nativity, and observed, with grief, that he was born in an evil hour, for Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun, were all under the earth, and the lord of his ascendant afflicted with a hateful square of Mars and Saturn.