The Cabinet of Curiosities, Or Wonders of the World Displayed: Forming a Repository of Whatever is Remarkable in the Regions of Nature and Art, Extraordinary Events, and Eccentric Biography. With Forty-three IllustrationsPiercy & Reed, 1840 - Curiosities and wonders |
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Page 14
... traveller , " has all the fire , the glow , the inspiration of commanding genius . It struck me the most extraordinary the first time I beheld it . I was then fresh from England , where , excepting the cartoons , we have nothing worthy ...
... traveller , " has all the fire , the glow , the inspiration of commanding genius . It struck me the most extraordinary the first time I beheld it . I was then fresh from England , where , excepting the cartoons , we have nothing worthy ...
Page 16
... traveller . The under - carriage , which has swan - neck iron cranes , of prodigious strength ; the springs are semicircular , and each of them seems capable of bearing half a ton ; the wheels , and more particularly the tire , are also ...
... traveller . The under - carriage , which has swan - neck iron cranes , of prodigious strength ; the springs are semicircular , and each of them seems capable of bearing half a ton ; the wheels , and more particularly the tire , are also ...
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... travellers . It should be remarked that these appearances were observed on the eve of the rebellion , when troops of horsemen might be privately exercising ; and as the imitative powers of the Spectre of the Broken Mountain demonstrate ...
... travellers . It should be remarked that these appearances were observed on the eve of the rebellion , when troops of horsemen might be privately exercising ; and as the imitative powers of the Spectre of the Broken Mountain demonstrate ...
Page 41
... traveller a - thinking . Surprise had at first kept him silent ; but his reflections soon gave rise to uneasiness and . apprehension , and , before day - break , he stole away to Beirout . He was acquainted with a merchant in that city ...
... traveller a - thinking . Surprise had at first kept him silent ; but his reflections soon gave rise to uneasiness and . apprehension , and , before day - break , he stole away to Beirout . He was acquainted with a merchant in that city ...
Page 43
... traveller's being benighted , even her enemies would have believed it . THE WHIRLWINDS , MIRAGE , AND LOCUSTS OF EGYPT . A STRONG wind that arose this day leads me to mention some particulars of the phenomena that often happen in Egypt ...
... traveller's being benighted , even her enemies would have believed it . THE WHIRLWINDS , MIRAGE , AND LOCUSTS OF EGYPT . A STRONG wind that arose this day leads me to mention some particulars of the phenomena that often happen in Egypt ...
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