Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives and Anecdotes Respecting Extraordinary Characters, Illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism: Exemplifying the Imperfections of Circumstantial Evidence, and Recording Singular Instances of Voluntary Human Suffering, and Interesting OccurrencesWilliam Hone, 1819 - 288 Seiten |
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... o'clock in the morning , when he would attend them and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art . or science , and in any of these twelve languages , Hebrew , Syriac , Arabic , Greek , Latin , Spanish , French ...
... o'clock in the morning , when he would attend them and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art . or science , and in any of these twelve languages , Hebrew , Syriac , Arabic , Greek , Latin , Spanish , French ...
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... o'clock in the morning till six at night . At length the president , after extolling him highly for the many rare and excellent endowments which God and nature had bestowed upon him , rose from his chair , and accompanied by four of the ...
... o'clock in the morning till six at night . At length the president , after extolling him highly for the many rare and excellent endowments which God and nature had bestowed upon him , rose from his chair , and accompanied by four of the ...
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... o'clock in the morning , the Dey of Algiers was assassinated in his palace , and the grand treasurer mortally wounded , by six soldiers , desperadoes , whilst the Dey and the treasurer were distributing the pay to the soldiery , in the ...
... o'clock in the morning , the Dey of Algiers was assassinated in his palace , and the grand treasurer mortally wounded , by six soldiers , desperadoes , whilst the Dey and the treasurer were distributing the pay to the soldiery , in the ...
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... o'clock , a number of officers and men assembled at the spot where it was said to have been seen , when , after some search , the animal was discovered to be in the recess of an immense rock ; dogs were sent in , in the hopes of ...
... o'clock , a number of officers and men assembled at the spot where it was said to have been seen , when , after some search , the animal was discovered to be in the recess of an immense rock ; dogs were sent in , in the hopes of ...
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... o'clock the associates began their labours . One of them was placed as a centinel near the door of the cave , armed with a poniard , ready to dispatch the turnkey , if , at his visit at two o'clock in the morning , he should appear to ...
... o'clock the associates began their labours . One of them was placed as a centinel near the door of the cave , armed with a poniard , ready to dispatch the turnkey , if , at his visit at two o'clock in the morning , he should appear to ...
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Seite 65 - And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
Seite 65 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Seite 166 - Dublin for a similar offence, and there condemned and executed. Between his conviction and execution, and again at the fatal tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thomas Geddely who had committed the robbery at York, for which the unfortunate James Crow had been executed ! We must add, that a gentleman, an inhabitant of York, happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely's trial and execution, and who knew him when he lived with Mrs. Williams, declared, that the resemblance between the two...
Seite 181 - Struck •with this, they flew to the door of Shaw's apartment ; they knocked — no answer was given. The knocking was still repeated — still no answer. Suspicions had before arisen against the father ; they were now confirmed : a constable was procured, an entrance forced ; Catherine was found weltering in her blood, and the fatal knife by her side ! She was alive but speechless ; but, on questioning her as to owing her death to her father, was just able to make a motion with her head, apparently...
Seite 34 - Europe, and had lately killed three who had entered the lists with him in that city. The duke of Mantua was much grieved at having granted this man his protection, as he found it to be attended with such fatal consequences. Crichton being informed of his...
Seite 240 - If you had been called upon to dissect a body supl>osed to have died of poison, should you, or not, have thought it necessary to have pursued your search through the guts ? — A.
Seite 270 - It was extremely gratifying on this occasion to observe the triumph of nature, feeling, and parental affection, over prejudice and a horrid superstition ; and that those who, but a short period before, would, as many of them had done, have doomed their infants to destruction without compunction, should now glory in their preservation, and doat on them with fondness...
Seite 248 - Habit and exercise instructed him to maintain his dangerous situation without fear or giddiness, and successively to assume the different postures of devotion. He sometimes prayed in an erect attitude, with his outstretched arms in the figure of a cross ; but his most familiar practice was that of bending his meagre skeleton from the forehead to the feet ; and a curious spectator, after numbering twelve hundred and forty-four repetitions, at length desisted from the endless account.
Seite 206 - ... then to die, and that he knew nothing of Mr. Harrison's death, nor what was become of him ; and did, with great earnestness, beg and beseech his brother, for the satisfaction of the...
Seite 169 - ... sent him out to change a guinea for him, and that he had only come back since he (the gentleman) was in the house, saying, he could not get change...