Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 - 699 páginas |
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... species of eagle termed the ossifrage or ospray is thus called from its breaking the bones of animals in order to feed upon them . if re - animation was exuding from every pore of 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Human Ossifrages.
... species of eagle termed the ossifrage or ospray is thus called from its breaking the bones of animals in order to feed upon them . if re - animation was exuding from every pore of 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Human Ossifrages.
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... called into existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a quickened circulation ...
... called into existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a quickened circulation ...
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... called the Gargouillade , which , as a French author informs us , is devoted to the entrée of winds , dæmons , and elementary spirits , and of whose mode of execution he gravely proceeds to give an elaborate and scientific description ...
... called the Gargouillade , which , as a French author informs us , is devoted to the entrée of winds , dæmons , and elementary spirits , and of whose mode of execution he gravely proceeds to give an elaborate and scientific description ...
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... called talking through the nose , though it is in fact an inability so to talk , from the partial or total stoppage of the passage . Not being provided with an ounce of civet , I will not suffer my imagina- tion to wallow in all the ...
... called talking through the nose , though it is in fact an inability so to talk , from the partial or total stoppage of the passage . Not being provided with an ounce of civet , I will not suffer my imagina- tion to wallow in all the ...
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... called kermes , whence a brilliant scarlet dye is extracted , and which are so rapidly reproduced , that they often afford two crops in a year . From these small worms the French have derived the word vermeil , and we our vermillion ...
... called kermes , whence a brilliant scarlet dye is extracted , and which are so rapidly reproduced , that they often afford two crops in a year . From these small worms the French have derived the word vermeil , and we our vermillion ...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
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