Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, 第 3 巻R. S. Kirby, 1805 |
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... held that distinguished rank in the British navy . He was born at Bonchurch , in the Isle of Wight , left an orphan at an early age , and ap- prenticed by the parish to a tailor . While sitting one day alone on the shop - board , he was ...
... held that distinguished rank in the British navy . He was born at Bonchurch , in the Isle of Wight , left an orphan at an early age , and ap- prenticed by the parish to a tailor . While sitting one day alone on the shop - board , he was ...
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... held it in a proper manner , went gently towards the hall and from thence to the stair - case , stop- ping and turning about from time to time as if he was lighting somebody down . At length having arrived at the door of the house , he ...
... held it in a proper manner , went gently towards the hall and from thence to the stair - case , stop- ping and turning about from time to time as if he was lighting somebody down . At length having arrived at the door of the house , he ...
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... held on a kind of post and going higher up , knocked at a door . As it was not opened he went down stairs again , called the valet de chambre , and having asked him some questions , ran up stairs again in a hurry , and striking the ...
... held on a kind of post and going higher up , knocked at a door . As it was not opened he went down stairs again , called the valet de chambre , and having asked him some questions , ran up stairs again in a hurry , and striking the ...
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... held with the man thus strangely preserved from death , that , after con- templating his horrid situation awhile , during the first hours of his imprisonment , he lay down and slept . On awakening , the idea of perishing for want of ...
... held with the man thus strangely preserved from death , that , after con- templating his horrid situation awhile , during the first hours of his imprisonment , he lay down and slept . On awakening , the idea of perishing for want of ...
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... held him fast till he had done struggling ; when that was done he waked some of the family , and said Tuers was dying he believed . JOHANNES DEMAREST COR . TWO ANECDOTES OF LONGEVITY . ON the 12th of October 1777 , died , on the Heath ...
... held him fast till he had done struggling ; when that was done he waked some of the family , and said Tuers was dying he believed . JOHANNES DEMAREST COR . TWO ANECDOTES OF LONGEVITY . ON the 12th of October 1777 , died , on the Heath ...
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70 ページ - While they were inquiring and deliberating, they were summoned into the girl's chamber by some ladies who were near her bed, and who had heard knocks and scratches.
71 ページ - ... nothing more than silence ensued : the person supposed to be accused by the spirit, then went down with several others, but no effect was perceived. Upon their return they examined the girl, but could draw no confession from her. Between two and three she desired and was permitted to go home with her father. " It is, therefore, the opinion of the whole assembly, that the child has some art of making or counterfeiting a particular noise, and that there is no agency of any higher cause.
70 ページ - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin. It was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
38 ページ - Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
204 ページ - At the same time, the ground-swell had increased so much, that its effects upon the ice became very extraordinary and alarming. The sledges, instead of gliding along smoothly upon an even surface, sometimes ran with violence after the dogs, and shortly after seemed with difficulty to ascend the rising hill; for the elasticity of so vast a body of ice of many leagues square, supported by a troubled sea, though in some places three or four yards in thickness, would in some degree...
205 ページ - ... as almost to deprive them of the power of utterance. They stood overwhelmed with astonishment at their miraculous escape and even the heathen Esquimaux expressed gratitude to God for their deliverance. The Esquimaux now began to build a snow-house, about thirty paces from the beach; but before they had finished their work, the waves reached the place where the sledges were secured, and they were with difficulty saved from being washed into the sea. About nine o'clock all of them crept into...
224 ページ - The boy had the precaution to go up into the village to the barber, and get blooded: on his return, he was asked where he had been, and what was the matter with his arm ? He told his father that he had got bled—" Bled ! Bled !" said the old gentleman, " but what did you give ?' —
206 ページ - They jumped up in an instant, one of them with a large knife cut a passage through the side of the house, and each seizing some part of the baggage, it was thrown out upon a higher part of the beach, brother Turner assisting the Esquimaux.