Ten Thousand
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共 71 段- Fallacy of the Virtues of a Seventh Son,
- The quality and colour of the hair was a subject of speculat
- A Neapolitan soldier who had been bitten by a tarantula, tho
- A Choice Parcel of Muscovado and Powder Sugars, in Hogsheads
- "1. You that in ringing take delight,
- _If thou wylt make a Carbuckle stone, or a thyng shyning in
- This evening, and during the Summer Season, will be performe
- The men of science of the day were of course confounded by s
- A horse having been turned into a field by its owner, Mr. Jo
- Lord Monboddo relates the following singular anecdote of a s
- It is little more than thirty years ago, when, on the river
- The procession was two hours and three-quarters on its way.
- The Fathers of the Church, and the Disciples of the Sorbonne
- "His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has taken the Duke o
- The wisdom of Captain Hall's proceedings was, however, speed
- Windsor Castle built by Edward 3rd, 1386.
- "The sheriff arrived, attended by his officers, to receive t
- The crater Stromboli, which has been in activity since the m
- "This was a tea garden, situated, after passing over a woode
- But the ravages made by the plague in _London_, about 1665,
- After the accession of Tippoo Saib to the throne of Mysore i
- The following quaint and curious verses are taken from a ver
- "To my great surprise," he says, "I found Mr. Ingleby in a s
- This action continues for a time, and then the skeletons, fo
- The two quaint instruments pictured in our engraving, of abo
- In consequence of a tradition, that the heart of Lord Edward
- John Bull, of London, stock-broker, died 1848, aged 100 year
- One of the most singular circumstances occurred a few years
- It is impossible to appreciate properly the courage, determi
- The watch is of silver, in the form of a skull. On the foreh
- The following anecdote forcibly illustrates the absurd custo
- By the unanimous consent of all nations, chess holds the fir
- There is nothing more extraordinary in the history of the di
- On April 25th, 1769, at Constantinople, the Turks were remov
- Figure 1 is that celebrated vase which for more than two cen
- Chaucer, 25th October, 1400, the day of the first quarter.
- Before this fatal event we are taught to believe, by Rigordu
- The sides were partly, and the back wholly open; and it was
- "Triumphs and Trophies in Cookery, to be used in Festival Ti
- There are few insects of such extraordinary habits as the Tr
- The annexed engraving represents an exceedingly beautiful br
- The cries of the street hawkers in Egypt at the present day
- This curious relic, engraved over leaf, two-thirds the size
- The chair which we here engrave claims to be regarded as a g
- The manor of Medmenham was, in the reign of King Stephen, gi
- Mr. Henry Hastings, a most singular character, and genuine s
- By far the most remarkable of the recently discovered remain
- The Cherry Tree was introduced into Great Britain before A.D
- The perfection which is bestowed on the organs of sense in i
- These vocal fish differ from the umbrinas in having their ja
- The history of the ancient castle of Maynooth is one of much
- Mr. Forbes has given a curious picture of the kind of magnif
- The above engraving represents a group of Abyssinian arms. T
- In France, superstition at this day is even more prevalent t
- Various interesting ornaments, belonging to the Archaic, or
- "In the area which stretches before the Hall of Audience are
- ANCIENT TRIPOD.
- All these varied delights of nature were ranged in rows on t
- The gun, of which the annexed is a sketch, is one of the man
- The _Hari-kari_, or "Happy Dispatch," consists in ripping op
- The sketch on next page represents a curious custom which st
- In Blackfriars was a theatre, the memory of which with the o
- "King Ptolemy, to the Gods the Saviours, for the benefit of
- The massive bars before you are all that remain of the perpe
- Near Lunel, in France, on the eastern bank of the river Hera
- The pain and labour which the inhabitants of such an oasis t
- The gods and the giants, encouraged by Vishnu's example, fel
- The first rhinoceros ever seen in Europe was that of which P
- Of the figures given in our article, the one on the extreme
- The principal temple of Pou-tou is reached by a long avenue
- The word _sangita_, symphony, as applied to music by the Hin