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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... sented the most absurd images , and at others , magnified objects to a size vastly greater than the reality ; hence , the tales of Ghosts and Gob- lins , which exist only in the misgui ded imaginations of the ignorant and credulous . An ...
... sented the most absurd images , and at others , magnified objects to a size vastly greater than the reality ; hence , the tales of Ghosts and Gob- lins , which exist only in the misgui ded imaginations of the ignorant and credulous . An ...
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... sented as a very robust person , wrapt in a lion's skin , leaning on a huge and knotty club . The following lines of the poet , which but hint at the various ex- ploits of this renowned Hero , or Deity of Heathen Mythology , give a ...
... sented as a very robust person , wrapt in a lion's skin , leaning on a huge and knotty club . The following lines of the poet , which but hint at the various ex- ploits of this renowned Hero , or Deity of Heathen Mythology , give a ...
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... to these supposed divinities ; and the immortal gods , whose province they believed it to reward virtue , and punish crimes , instead of being themselves held up as patterns of purity and perfection , were repre- sented as subject to 23.
... to these supposed divinities ; and the immortal gods , whose province they believed it to reward virtue , and punish crimes , instead of being themselves held up as patterns of purity and perfection , were repre- sented as subject to 23.
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purity and perfection , were repre- sented as subject to human passions , and capable of committing the most criminal acts . POETS , historians , and design- ing or credulous people relate many marvellous stories of Mermaids ; and some ...
purity and perfection , were repre- sented as subject to human passions , and capable of committing the most criminal acts . POETS , historians , and design- ing or credulous people relate many marvellous stories of Mermaids ; and some ...
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... sented , holding a mirror in one hand , and combing her long hair with the other . * One of them , speaking of the mermaid , says , Amphibious nymph , from Nile's prolific bed , Emerging Trapa lifts her pearly head ; Fair glows her ...
... sented , holding a mirror in one hand , and combing her long hair with the other . * One of them , speaking of the mermaid , says , Amphibious nymph , from Nile's prolific bed , Emerging Trapa lifts her pearly head ; Fair glows her ...
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