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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... gave the stranger way . Darker it grew ; and darker fears , Came o'er her troubled mind ; When now , a short quick step she hears , Come patting close behind . She turn'd , it stopt ! nought could she see , Upon the gloomy plain ! But ...
... gave the stranger way . Darker it grew ; and darker fears , Came o'er her troubled mind ; When now , a short quick step she hears , Come patting close behind . She turn'd , it stopt ! nought could she see , Upon the gloomy plain ! But ...
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... gave figures which proclaimed these three months , a female face with the bodies and claws of birds , and called them Harop , a name which sufficiently denoted the true sense of the symbol . All this the Greeks realized , and ...
... gave figures which proclaimed these three months , a female face with the bodies and claws of birds , and called them Harop , a name which sufficiently denoted the true sense of the symbol . All this the Greeks realized , and ...
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... gave over believing in this wonderful property of the Salamander . The Salamander being destitute of claws , having only four toes on each of the fore - feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner ...
... gave over believing in this wonderful property of the Salamander . The Salamander being destitute of claws , having only four toes on each of the fore - feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner ...
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