Les bijoux indiscrets: or, The indiscreet toys, Volume 1

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Re-printed for Pierrot Ragout, 1749
 

Contents

I
1
II
7
III
12
V
16
VI
20
VIII
28
IX
39
X
46
XXI
115
XXII
120
XXIII
132
XXIV
136
XXVI
141
XXVIII
147
XXIX
161
XXXI
171

XII
54
XIII
64
XV
69
XVI
76
XVII
88
XVIII
95
XIX
105
XXXII
188
XXXIII
201
XXXIV
218
XXXV
239
XXXVI
245
XXXVIII
251
XL
262

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Page 261 - I faw him directing a long telefcope towards the heavens, eftimating the fall of bodies by means of a pendulum, determining the weight of the air by a tube fill'd with quickfilver, and difcompofing light with a prifm.
Page 21 - ... in a plain, audible voice. " Do not imagine however, that 'tis " by the mouth that they are to ** fpeak ?" By what then will they fpeak, fays Mangogul?
Page 8 - ... fifteen years of his life ; and at the age of twenty he could eat, drink, and fleep, as completely as any potentate of his age.
Page 261 - With his right hand he brandifhed a torch, whole light fpread a vaft way in the iky, enlightened even the bottom of the waters, and penetrated into the entrails of the earth. I alk'd Plato, what that gigantic figure was, that was comcoming towards us.
Page 162 - I cannot tell what be" nefit you will reap by your ring ; ** but the more you try it, the more •" odious my fex becomes to me : " even thofe, whom I thought I juft" ly held in fome efteem, are not
Page 262 - I faw experience draw near, and the columns of the portico of hypothefes to fhake, its arches to fink in, and its pavement to crack under our feet. " Let " us fly, faid Plato, let us fly: this " edifice has but a moment to ftand.

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