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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... feet and claws hook- ed like the talons of a bird of prey . The ancients looked on the harpies as a sort of genii or dæmons . * This creature , which never had a being , is said to be symbol , and that the fable originated among the ...
... feet and claws hook- ed like the talons of a bird of prey . The ancients looked on the harpies as a sort of genii or dæmons . * This creature , which never had a being , is said to be symbol , and that the fable originated among the ...
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... feet , and a naked porous body.- This animal has been said , even in the Philosophical Transactions , to live in the fire ; but this is found to be fabulous . It is found in the southern countries of Europe . The following account of ...
... feet , and a naked porous body.- This animal has been said , even in the Philosophical Transactions , to live in the fire ; but this is found to be fabulous . It is found in the southern countries of Europe . The following account of ...
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... feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner of living must , as is indeed the case , be very different from that of other lizards . It walks very slowly ; far from being able to climb trees with ...
... feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner of living must , as is indeed the case , be very different from that of other lizards . It walks very slowly ; far from being able to climb trees with ...
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fully represented him with icicles hanging from his wings , and skates on his feet , pinching an old man's nose , to represent cold weather . The dress of the old man , as well as his attitude , and that of his dog , pretty ingeniously ...
fully represented him with icicles hanging from his wings , and skates on his feet , pinching an old man's nose , to represent cold weather . The dress of the old man , as well as his attitude , and that of his dog , pretty ingeniously ...
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