Mirabilia, Or, The Wonders of Nature and Art: Comprising Upwards of Three Hundred of the Most Remarkable Curiosities and Phenomena in the Known World : with an Appendix of Interesting Experiments, in Different Arts and Sciences, for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People : Selected from the Researches of Eminent Travellers, Historians, and NaturalistsJoseph Taylor F.J. Mason, Holywell Street, Strand, 1829 - 568 páginas |
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... ........ Cathedrals ...... 194 History of the weather . Monuments and inscriptions .... 210 Holy land . springs , & c . Ruins .... Cascades , fountains , cataracts , Pyramids and pillars .. 221 Tower of London Inventions Experiments 264.
... ........ Cathedrals ...... 194 History of the weather . Monuments and inscriptions .... 210 Holy land . springs , & c . Ruins .... Cascades , fountains , cataracts , Pyramids and pillars .. 221 Tower of London Inventions Experiments 264.
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... pillar was erected to his memory , on which is the following epitaph , composed by Dr. Thomas Chapman , Master of Magdalen College , Cambridge , from 1746 to 1760 : Blush not , marble , To rescue from oblivion the memory of HENRY ...
... pillar was erected to his memory , on which is the following epitaph , composed by Dr. Thomas Chapman , Master of Magdalen College , Cambridge , from 1746 to 1760 : Blush not , marble , To rescue from oblivion the memory of HENRY ...
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... pillars , which threw up a shower of fire ; several painted lanterns , and sentences written in large characters of burning sulphur ; and six elegant branched candlesticks , with different tiers of lights , ranged in circles so ...
... pillars , which threw up a shower of fire ; several painted lanterns , and sentences written in large characters of burning sulphur ; and six elegant branched candlesticks , with different tiers of lights , ranged in circles so ...
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... pillar , no bigger than a quill , are two umbrellas ; under the largest of which a bell is fixed , at a considerable distance from the clock , and seeming to have no connexion with it ; but from which a communication is secretly ...
... pillar , no bigger than a quill , are two umbrellas ; under the largest of which a bell is fixed , at a considerable distance from the clock , and seeming to have no connexion with it ; but from which a communication is secretly ...
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... pillar in the centre , was the cross or tree ; the stamina , the hammers ; the styles , the nails ; the inner circle , about the central pillar , the crown of thorns ; the radiance , the glory ; the white , in the flower , the emblem of ...
... pillar in the centre , was the cross or tree ; the stamina , the hammers ; the styles , the nails ; the inner circle , about the central pillar , the crown of thorns ; the radiance , the glory ; the white , in the flower , the emblem of ...
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