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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... the propri ety of withholding from them every thing but truth , or fiction presented in such form as cannot be mistaken , such as useful Fables . The fright ful stories which are sometimes told by nurses or the False Stories Corrected. ...
... the propri ety of withholding from them every thing but truth , or fiction presented in such form as cannot be mistaken , such as useful Fables . The fright ful stories which are sometimes told by nurses or the False Stories Corrected. ...
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... sometimes repre- 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 ...
... sometimes repre- 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 ...
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... and distinguished by a variety of fantastical actions , either good or bad . They are represented as fe- males , superior to human nature , sometimes visible , and sometimes invisible ; and possessing power to pass through key holes. 26.
... and distinguished by a variety of fantastical actions , either good or bad . They are represented as fe- males , superior to human nature , sometimes visible , and sometimes invisible ; and possessing power to pass through key holes. 26.
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