Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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... egg; instead of a gosling, out crawled a reptile, which at first sight seemed a centipedes, but increasing in bulk every moment, it presently grew up into a mon VOL. II.— A ster as hideous to look upon as a Hindoo divinity.
... egg; instead of a gosling, out crawled a reptile, which at first sight seemed a centipedes, but increasing in bulk every moment, it presently grew up into a mon VOL. II.— A ster as hideous to look upon as a Hindoo divinity.
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James Montgomery. ster as hideous to look upon as a Hindoo divinity. It was the Demon of War in his own person, never before revealed to mortal eye. His figure might have been fashioned in mockery of the human form; his stature reached ...
James Montgomery. ster as hideous to look upon as a Hindoo divinity. It was the Demon of War in his own person, never before revealed to mortal eye. His figure might have been fashioned in mockery of the human form; his stature reached ...
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... look, grew so gentle, intellectual, and graceful, in manners, in aspect, and in form, that the present witness (though slow to believe any good of him) became as fully persuaded as he himself was, that he could be no longer the same ...
... look, grew so gentle, intellectual, and graceful, in manners, in aspect, and in form, that the present witness (though slow to believe any good of him) became as fully persuaded as he himself was, that he could be no longer the same ...
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... look round him, and was enchanted to find, that the world had been as happily regenerated in the transition from war to peace as he was. Instead of mourning and poverty, rapine, devastation, and carnage, violence in every shape, and ...
... look round him, and was enchanted to find, that the world had been as happily regenerated in the transition from war to peace as he was. Instead of mourning and poverty, rapine, devastation, and carnage, violence in every shape, and ...
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... look upon as grave-stones with their epitaphs ; — when, lo ! just as I had completed the circumambula tion of the church, the two ladies, without their 'squire, had entered the yard, and were stepping from tomb to tomb in quest of such ...
... look upon as grave-stones with their epitaphs ; — when, lo ! just as I had completed the circumambula tion of the church, the two ladies, without their 'squire, had entered the yard, and were stepping from tomb to tomb in quest of such ...
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