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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... tion for their children , and that the children themselves will be amused and instructed by a perusal of True Stories Related , and False Stories Corrected . 1 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY H False Stories Corrected . MANY wrong ideas are ...
... tion for their children , and that the children themselves will be amused and instructed by a perusal of True Stories Related , and False Stories Corrected . 1 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY H False Stories Corrected . MANY wrong ideas are ...
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... they should be stolen or changed by some of these fantastical personages . Prob- ably from this circumstance , Gay formed his fable , the Mother , the Nurse and the Fairy . ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals 27.
... they should be stolen or changed by some of these fantastical personages . Prob- ably from this circumstance , Gay formed his fable , the Mother , the Nurse and the Fairy . ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals 27.
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ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals , with the face of a woman , bodies of vultures , with feet and claws hook- ed like the talons of a bird of prey . The ancients looked on the harpies as a sort of genii or ...
ACCORDING to ancient tradi- tion , Harpies were winged animals , with the face of a woman , bodies of vultures , with feet and claws hook- ed like the talons of a bird of prey . The ancients looked on the harpies as a sort of genii or ...
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