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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... gain the vale of Fakenham , And hail its willow shade . Her footsteps knew no idle stops , But followed faster still ; And echoed to the darksome copse , That whispered on the hill ; Where clamorous rooks , yet scarcely hush'd , Bespoke a ...
... gain the vale of Fakenham , And hail its willow shade . Her footsteps knew no idle stops , But followed faster still ; And echoed to the darksome copse , That whispered on the hill ; Where clamorous rooks , yet scarcely hush'd , Bespoke a ...
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... design- ing or credulous people relate many marvellous stories of Mermaids ; and some from such authority as to gain the belief of many people ; but little children , believe them not . They are fictions , and no where to be found. 24.
... design- ing or credulous people relate many marvellous stories of Mermaids ; and some from such authority as to gain the belief of many people ; but little children , believe them not . They are fictions , and no where to be found. 24.
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... hardest 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.
... hardest 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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them . As agreeable fables readily gain belief , every one has been eager to adopt that of a small animal so highly privileged , so superior to the most powerful agent in nature , and which could furnish so many objects of comparison to ...
them . As agreeable fables readily gain belief , every one has been eager to adopt that of a small animal so highly privileged , so superior to the most powerful agent in nature , and which could furnish so many objects of comparison to ...
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