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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... fabulous history has recorded as a most renowned Grecian hero , and who , after death , was ranked among the gods , and received divine honours . According to the accounts , there were many persons of the same name . dorus mentions ...
... fabulous history has recorded as a most renowned Grecian hero , and who , after death , was ranked among the gods , and received divine honours . According to the accounts , there were many persons of the same name . dorus mentions ...
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... fabulous . It is found in the southern countries of Europe . The following account of this species is extracted from the Count de la Ce- pede's Natural History of Serpents : Whilst the hardest bodies cannot resist the violence of fire ...
... fabulous . It is found in the southern countries of Europe . The following account of this species is extracted from the Count de la Ce- pede's Natural History of Serpents : Whilst the hardest bodies cannot resist the violence of fire ...
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... fabulous bird of the ancients ? HISTORY informs , that there were a people in Thessalia , a coun- try of ancient Greece , who were called Centaurs ; and that they were the first who tamed horses , and made use of them in war , and thus ...
... fabulous bird of the ancients ? HISTORY informs , that there were a people in Thessalia , a coun- try of ancient Greece , who were called Centaurs ; and that they were the first who tamed horses , and made use of them in war , and thus ...
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... Fabulous , " has a great deal of valuable matter , well worth reading . He very ingenious- ly takes up this fabulous story of the ancients , and proves , not that there ever was such a creature in shape , tills bout that many , if not ...
... Fabulous , " has a great deal of valuable matter , well worth reading . He very ingenious- ly takes up this fabulous story of the ancients , and proves , not that there ever was such a creature in shape , tills bout that many , if not ...
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