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Pagina 50 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Pagina 85 - Their cruelty descends to their beasts, it being a custom, in some places, to feast upon a living cow they tie in the middle of them, near a great fire, and then cut collops of this poor living beast, and broil them on the fire, till they have mangled her all to pieces ; nay, sometimes they will only cut off as much as will satisfy their present appetites, and let her go till their greedy stomachs call for a new supply ; such horrible cruelty, as can scarce be paralleled in the whole world.
Pagina 130 - L'auteur fut recherché, comme le bel-efprit le plus ingénieux & comme le bouffon le plus agréable. On eft bien éloigné de penfer ainfi aujourd'hui. Dans fon extravagant & inintelligible livre, il a répandu à la vérité une extrême gaieté, mais une plus grande impertinence. Il a prodigué l'érudition, les obfcénités & l'ennui.
Pagina 56 - ... rank of literary heroes. How this proficiency was obtained he sufficiently discovers, by informing us, that the
Pagina 119 - The duty, the means, and the consequences of translating the Scriptures into the oriental tongues, and of promoting Christian knowledge in Asia.
Pagina 66 - The history of the world, from the reign of Alexander to that of Augustus...
Pagina 58 - Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete ; being an attempt to deduce the several Orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate, from an Union of the Rites Commemorative of the Deluges with the Adoration of the Host of Heaven.
Pagina 85 - A Journey to Scotland, giving a character of that Country, the People and their Manners. By an English Gentleman.
Pagina 16 - On Sunday evening the 14th of January 1753, as he was sitting in the midst of his family, listening to a sermon of Dr.
Pagina 28 - Conchologists, and which fully answers its avowed intent ; that of a correct epitome of the science of Testaceology in its present state.