Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Band 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 Seiten |
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... Muggs , a citizen of Georgia in the United States , whose vessel , the Black - eyed Lass , as some of our readers may perhaps recollect , was surrounded and nearly crushed a few years ago by the terrible sea - serpent , until several ...
... Muggs , a citizen of Georgia in the United States , whose vessel , the Black - eyed Lass , as some of our readers may perhaps recollect , was surrounded and nearly crushed a few years ago by the terrible sea - serpent , until several ...
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... Muggs , who swore by the magician Obi , that he was born at Timbuctoo , had been made a prisoner in his youth , and degraded into his present mulatto co- lour by a long residence abroad , -averments which he substantiated by a woolly ...
... Muggs , who swore by the magician Obi , that he was born at Timbuctoo , had been made a prisoner in his youth , and degraded into his present mulatto co- lour by a long residence abroad , -averments which he substantiated by a woolly ...
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... Muggs , upon the same coast , establish in every respect the perfect fidelity of his relation . Thus we are told that Hanno caught two women entirely covered with hair , whose skins he carried to Carthage , which has gene- rally been ...
... Muggs , upon the same coast , establish in every respect the perfect fidelity of his relation . Thus we are told that Hanno caught two women entirely covered with hair , whose skins he carried to Carthage , which has gene- rally been ...
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... Muggs has no doubt whatever , that , at certain seasons of the year , the entire surface of the land may be in the fiery condition described by the Carthaginian , since he himself , in the neighbour- hood of Baromaya , came to a deep ...
... Muggs has no doubt whatever , that , at certain seasons of the year , the entire surface of the land may be in the fiery condition described by the Carthaginian , since he himself , in the neighbour- hood of Baromaya , came to a deep ...
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... Muggs wished to have ascertained the temperature of this singular valley , but from the violence of the heat , the quicksilver burst out at the top of his thermometer , and spirted up a considerable height into the air . Leaving this ...
... Muggs wished to have ascertained the temperature of this singular valley , but from the violence of the heat , the quicksilver burst out at the top of his thermometer , and spirted up a considerable height into the air . Leaving this ...
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