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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... seen . An Ass's Foal had lost its Dam , Within the spacious park ; And , simple as the playful lamb , Had followed in the dark . No Goblin he , no imp ofsin ; No crimes had ever known . They took the shaggy stranger in , And rear'd him ...
... seen . An Ass's Foal had lost its Dam , Within the spacious park ; And , simple as the playful lamb , Had followed in the dark . No Goblin he , no imp ofsin ; No crimes had ever known . They took the shaggy stranger in , And rear'd him ...
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... seen born and suffer like ourselves , all the miseries to which human nature is liable ; and die , and become food for worms ; yet this happened with almost all nations , after the revolution of many ages . A man who had performed great ...
... seen born and suffer like ourselves , all the miseries to which human nature is liable ; and die , and become food for worms ; yet this happened with almost all nations , after the revolution of many ages . A man who had performed great ...
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... seen on ancient medals : and it is still borne in coat - armour . The Griffon is an ornament in archi- tecture , in common use among the Greeks , and was copied from them . THE Salamander has a short cy- lindrical tail , four. 30.
... seen on ancient medals : and it is still borne in coat - armour . The Griffon is an ornament in archi- tecture , in common use among the Greeks , and was copied from them . THE Salamander has a short cy- lindrical tail , four. 30.
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... place of her residence , where , like a tender parent , she empties the product of her labours before them . Now if some person quite unac- quainted with this bird , has seen her light , and hastily feed a ravenous brood from this 40.
... place of her residence , where , like a tender parent , she empties the product of her labours before them . Now if some person quite unac- quainted with this bird , has seen her light , and hastily feed a ravenous brood from this 40.
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