The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and art. [Publ. in pts. With] Correspondence [publ. in 11 suppls. Wanting the wrappers].1868 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ancient animal animalcules Anne Bonny appearance Aye-aye beautiful birds body bones British Museum called cause centre century colour columns coral covered creature curious David Brewster depth diameter Dinotherium distance earth Egypt electricity elephant exhibited eyes fact Fakirs fall feet high fire fish flame glacier glass GRACE DARLING hand head heat height horses hour hundred inches insects iron iron mask island kind king known Koh-i-noor lake land length light lived magical square magnet Mausolus miles minute Mont Cenis motion mountain mouth nature nearly night observed once passed piece PITCH LAKE plants present produced quantity rain remains remarkable river rock round says seen shell ship side snow sound stone stream supposed surface Thuggee tion traveller tree vegetable vessel volcano waterspout waves Welwitschia whole wind wonderful
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الصفحة 360 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
الصفحة 110 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
الصفحة 308 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal: the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption; for the mazes of interwoven lines and...
الصفحة 250 - West-Saxons, chiefly on the south coast, by predatory bands ; most of all by their ' aescs,' which they had built many years before. Then king Alfred commanded long ships to be built to oppose the aescs; they were full-nigh twice as long as the others ; some had sixty oars, and some had more : they were both swifter and steadier, and also higher than the others. They were shapen neither like the Frisian nor the Danish, but so as it seemed to him that they would be most efficient.
الصفحة 154 - ... finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.
الصفحة 242 - The friend in the meanwhile saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.
الصفحة 242 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters.
الصفحة 110 - The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice.
الصفحة 41 - Their hollow eyes rolled fearfully jn their large sockets; their mouths opened from ear to ear, and helmets of hanging flesh covered their hideous heads. The horses dragged along their own skins in the kennels, which overflowed with blood on both sides.
الصفحة 286 - A most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals, and even calves so long as they continue to suck the cows.