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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... thought they were monsters , part man and part horse ; and as this idea favoured the marvellous , it was ea- gerly adopted by the poets . Ridic- ulous as it may appear , some grave writers have contended for the ac - but tual existence 35.
... thought they were monsters , part man and part horse ; and as this idea favoured the marvellous , it was ea- gerly adopted by the poets . Ridic- ulous as it may appear , some grave writers have contended for the ac - but tual existence 35.
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writers have contended for the ac - but tual existence of these monsters , TO which are represented in paintings and prints , a compound of man and d beast , like this cut . 12 That pious and beautiful writer , Dr. Young , in a work of ...
writers have contended for the ac - but tual existence of these monsters , TO which are represented in paintings and prints , a compound of man and d beast , like this cut . 12 That pious and beautiful writer , Dr. Young , in a work of ...
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A Pelican as falsely described , A Pelican properly described . WRITERS have related strange ings of this bird , which the cred- ous have believed ; numbers have asserted , ' they fed their young with their own. 39.
A Pelican as falsely described , A Pelican properly described . WRITERS have related strange ings of this bird , which the cred- ous have believed ; numbers have asserted , ' they fed their young with their own. 39.
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