Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volumen4R. S. Kirby, 1820 |
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... head of some dragoons and hussars , he charged the Prussian battalion of Rhés , which he routed , and took the commander prisoner . In 1761 he was selected as a proper person to repair once more to Russia , to replace the French ...
... head of some dragoons and hussars , he charged the Prussian battalion of Rhés , which he routed , and took the commander prisoner . In 1761 he was selected as a proper person to repair once more to Russia , to replace the French ...
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... at this instant , swarms with officers and spies from the police of Paris , with a captain at their head ; they keep a boat between the bridges of London and Westminster , in which , MEMOIRS OF THE CHEVALIER D'EON . 5.
... at this instant , swarms with officers and spies from the police of Paris , with a captain at their head ; they keep a boat between the bridges of London and Westminster , in which , MEMOIRS OF THE CHEVALIER D'EON . 5.
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... head dress , as well as a subaltern of horse . With her new dress , she still however retains the cross of St. Louis . " The following incident will shew that her manners are far from being prudish . In company with several foreigners ...
... head dress , as well as a subaltern of horse . With her new dress , she still however retains the cross of St. Louis . " The following incident will shew that her manners are far from being prudish . In company with several foreigners ...
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... head of its armies . This petition , purporting to be from Madame D'Eon , was read before the National Assembly on the 11th of June , and set forth , that although she had worn the dress of a wo man for fifteen years , she had never ...
... head of its armies . This petition , purporting to be from Madame D'Eon , was read before the National Assembly on the 11th of June , and set forth , that although she had worn the dress of a wo man for fifteen years , she had never ...
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... heads and several limbs were taken out whole and entire . One of the heads projected further from the stone than the others , only the brain - pans of which just appeared , the remainder being buried and consoli- dated in the rock ...
... heads and several limbs were taken out whole and entire . One of the heads projected further from the stone than the others , only the brain - pans of which just appeared , the remainder being buried and consoli- dated in the rock ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 191 - At length the whole face was disengaged from its covering. The complexion of the skin of it was dark and discoloured. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone ; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately ; and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect.
Página 190 - A square opening was then made in the upper part of the lid, of such dimensions as to admit a clear insight into its contents. These were, an internal wooden coffin, very much decayed, and the Body, carefully wrapped...
Página 192 - When the head had been entirely disengaged from the attachments which confined it, it was found to be loose, and without any difficulty was taken up and held to view.
Página 114 - ... rapid. With respect to numbers consisting of two figures, he would raise some of them to the sixth, seventh and eighth power, but not always with equal facility; for the larger the products became, the more difficult he found it to proceed. He was asked the square root of 106,929, and before the number could be written down he immediately answered 327.
Página 112 - Arabic numerals, and without having given any particular attention to the subject, possesses, as if by intuition, the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance.
Página 409 - ... beginning to the end of their course had done nothing else ? Can I believe that they paused upon the consummation of their work from any motive but a dread of its consequences to themselves ; a recollection tardy, indeed, but appalling, that " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed?
Página 191 - Spectators of this interesting sight were well prepared to receive this impression ; but it is also certain, that such a facility of belief had been occasioned by the simplicity and truth of Mr. Herbert's Narrative, every part of which had been confirmed by the investigation, so far as it had advanced : and it will not be denied that the shape of the face, the forehead, an eye, and the beard, are the most important features by which resemblance is determined.
Página 190 - The vault is covered by an arch, half a brick in thickness, is seven feet two inches in width, nine feet six inches in length, and four feet ten inches in height, and is situated in the centre of the choir, opposite the eleventh knight's stall, on the sovereign's side. On removing the pall, a plain leaden coffin, with no appearance of ever having been inclosed in wood, and bearing an inscription ' KING CHARLES, 1648,' in large, legible characters, on a scroll of lead encircling it, immediately presented...
Página 308 - ... those which are common to the tropical tempest. It apparently slumbered in primeval solitude and tranquillity, and from the luxuriant vegetation and growth of the forest which covered its sides from the base nearly to the summit, seemed to discountenance the fact, and falsify the records, of the ancient volcano.
Página 309 - ... copper colour, suffused with fire. Scarcely had the day closed, when the flame burst at length pyramidically from the crater through the mass of smoke ; the rolling of the thunder became more awful and deafening ; electric flashes quickly succeeded, attended with loud claps, and now, indeed, the hurly-burly began. Those only who have witnessed such a sight can form any idea of the magnificence and variety of the lightning and electric flashes : some forked zig-zag, playing across the perpendicular...