The Historical Magazine, Or, Classical Library of Public Events: Consisting of Authentic Anecdotes, Biographical Memoirs, Manners and Customs, Philosophical Papers, Natural History, Theatrical Intelligence, Analysis of Historical Books, Domestic News, &c. &c. &c, Volume 21789 - History |
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... first made at Pelufium , a city near the mouth of the Nile . The brutality and favage fury of the Barbarians , who , after a battle , took from their graves fuch of their enemies as had perifhed , that they might infult and ftrip them ...
... first made at Pelufium , a city near the mouth of the Nile . The brutality and favage fury of the Barbarians , who , after a battle , took from their graves fuch of their enemies as had perifhed , that they might infult and ftrip them ...
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... first Sunday of FIACRE , in French , fignifies both a coach and a hackney coachman . Lent . There are ftill fome mona- fteries where the monks expire upon afhes . The Greeks and the Romans , who were accustomed to burn their dead , and ...
... first Sunday of FIACRE , in French , fignifies both a coach and a hackney coachman . Lent . There are ftill fome mona- fteries where the monks expire upon afhes . The Greeks and the Romans , who were accustomed to burn their dead , and ...
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... first watches were made at Nuremberg in 1500 , by Peter Hell , and called " Nuremburg eggs , ' account of their oval form . The fame year George Purbach , a ma- thematician of Vienna , employed a watch that pointed to feconds , for ...
... first watches were made at Nuremberg in 1500 , by Peter Hell , and called " Nuremburg eggs , ' account of their oval form . The fame year George Purbach , a ma- thematician of Vienna , employed a watch that pointed to feconds , for ...
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... first reminding him of their old acquaintance , hoped to perfuade him to be fatisfied with a prefent ; but he an- fwered that he knew nobody , and that if the merchant wifhed to fave his life , he muft give up every thing valuable he ...
... first reminding him of their old acquaintance , hoped to perfuade him to be fatisfied with a prefent ; but he an- fwered that he knew nobody , and that if the merchant wifhed to fave his life , he muft give up every thing valuable he ...
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... first inn . Shortly after his dog fcratched and barked at the door , and upon admiffion leaped about his mafter , with the greatest figns of joy , although the blood was ftreaming from the feveral wounds he had received . When the day ...
... first inn . Shortly after his dog fcratched and barked at the door , and upon admiffion leaped about his mafter , with the greatest figns of joy , although the blood was ftreaming from the feveral wounds he had received . When the day ...
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