False Stories CorrectedSamuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl-Street and Samuel S. Wood & Company, no. 212 Market-St., Baltimore, 1822 - African Americans - 41 pages |
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... Fables of the Man and his Son , affords a famil iar proof . In endeavouring to please alf , they displeased all , and lost the beast on which they rode . Nevertheless , it is to be hoped , that judicious parents will approve this selec ...
... Fables of the Man and his Son , affords a famil iar proof . In endeavouring to please alf , they displeased all , and lost the beast on which they rode . Nevertheless , it is to be hoped , that judicious parents will approve this selec ...
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... propri ety of withholding from them every thing but truth , or fiction presented in such form as cannot be mistaken , such as useful Fables . The fright ful stories which are sometimes told by nurses or the False Stories Corrected. ...
... propri ety of withholding from them every thing but truth , or fiction presented in such form as cannot be mistaken , such as useful Fables . The fright ful stories which are sometimes told by nurses or the False Stories Corrected. ...
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... stolen or changed by some of these fantastical personages . Prob- ably from this circumstance , Gay formed his fable , the Mother , the Nurse and the Fairy . ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals 27.
... stolen or changed by some of these fantastical personages . Prob- ably from this circumstance , Gay formed his fable , the Mother , the Nurse and the Fairy . ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals 27.
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... symbol , and that the fable originated among the Egypt- ians , as follows : -During the months * A kind of intermediate beings by the Ma . hometans believed to exist between man and angels . 0 of April , May , and June , especial- ly. 28.
... symbol , and that the fable originated among the Egypt- ians , as follows : -During the months * A kind of intermediate beings by the Ma . hometans believed to exist between man and angels . 0 of April , May , and June , especial- ly. 28.
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... bodies cannot resist the violence of fire , the world have endeavoured to make us believe that a small lizard can not only with- stand the flames , but even extinguish them . As agreeable fables readily gain belief , every. 31.
... bodies cannot resist the violence of fire , the world have endeavoured to make us believe that a small lizard can not only with- stand the flames , but even extinguish them . As agreeable fables readily gain belief , every. 31.
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