Encyclopedia of Natural and Artificial Wonders and Curiosities: Including a Full and Authentic Description of Remarkable and Astonishing Places, Beings, Animals, Customs, Experiments, Phenomena, Etc., of Both Ancient and Modern Times, in All Parts of the Globe : Comprising Correct Accounts of the Most Wonderful Freaks of Nature and Arts of Man, Volume 11 |
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... stones of , 791 Funeral ceremonies of the ancient Ethio- pians , 609 Fangi , 395 Galley of Hiero , 584 G Galvanism ... stone , 402 Lady of the Lamb , 601 Lama , 810 Pausilippo , 419 P Peacock , the common , 226 CONTENTS .
... stones of , 791 Funeral ceremonies of the ancient Ethio- pians , 609 Fangi , 395 Galley of Hiero , 584 G Galvanism ... stone , 402 Lady of the Lamb , 601 Lama , 810 Pausilippo , 419 P Peacock , the common , 226 CONTENTS .
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... Stone , the meteoric , 401 Stone , the Labrador , 402 Stone , the changeable , 404 Stone - eater , remarkable account of , 94 Stonehenge , 592 Storks , 229 Storm , singular effects of a , 519 Strasburg clock , 705 Sugar , antiquity of ...
... Stone , the meteoric , 401 Stone , the Labrador , 402 Stone , the changeable , 404 Stone - eater , remarkable account of , 94 Stonehenge , 592 Storks , 229 Storm , singular effects of a , 519 Strasburg clock , 705 Sugar , antiquity of ...
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... stone into a smooth stream of water , and there will take place undulations , which will be extended more or less according to the degree of force with which the stone was impelled . Conceive then , that when a word is uttered in the ...
... stone into a smooth stream of water , and there will take place undulations , which will be extended more or less according to the degree of force with which the stone was impelled . Conceive then , that when a word is uttered in the ...
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... stones , they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long . The Chevalier Scory , in his voyage to the ... stone tomb , containing a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn , and whose shin bone reached up to the girdle of ...
... stones , they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long . The Chevalier Scory , in his voyage to the ... stone tomb , containing a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn , and whose shin bone reached up to the girdle of ...
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... stones also are often generated in the gall - bladder and biliary ducts : these accidents have scarcely any other origin than an ob- struction of the free motion and efflux of the bile , by means of this violent stricture . From such a ...
... stones also are often generated in the gall - bladder and biliary ducts : these accidents have scarcely any other origin than an ob- struction of the free motion and efflux of the bile , by means of this violent stricture . From such a ...
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Page 29 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 73 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 351 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Page 184 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 73 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 753 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 13 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and -the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty- maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 351 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 384 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Page 13 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.