New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 102Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... four days ; iron , he said , would float on its waters and a feather sink ; things , he justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a ...
... four days ; iron , he said , would float on its waters and a feather sink ; things , he justly remarks , contrary to nature . Some called it Lake Dasfetidee , others the River of Devils , and some the river that is ever stinking . a ...
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... four lost cities ; but it is not countenanced by Scripture , which does not say anything about the country being converted into a tract of waters , nor is it countenanced by the incrustation of Lot's wife with salt , a soluble substance ...
... four lost cities ; but it is not countenanced by Scripture , which does not say anything about the country being converted into a tract of waters , nor is it countenanced by the incrustation of Lot's wife with salt , a soluble substance ...
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... four young , joyful- hearted French companions . But how absurd is this ! The traveller has , of his own accord , ensnared himself in the errors which , wittingly or unwittingly , he presents to the world . With the Bedouins of the same ...
... four young , joyful- hearted French companions . But how absurd is this ! The traveller has , of his own accord , ensnared himself in the errors which , wittingly or unwittingly , he presents to the world . With the Bedouins of the same ...
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... four other primeval cities . This being the case , the probabilities still remain that profane history and tradition are right , and that the popularly received opinion that some of the doomed cities are entombed in the waters of the ...
... four other primeval cities . This being the case , the probabilities still remain that profane history and tradition are right , and that the popularly received opinion that some of the doomed cities are entombed in the waters of the ...
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... four - hours ' , as sure as my name is PINCH , To harry and worry the Treasury bench , Now rate them as niggards , now bid them retrench , And ever the nail of my argument clench With broad - sword Latin or small - sword French , All to ...
... four - hours ' , as sure as my name is PINCH , To harry and worry the Treasury bench , Now rate them as niggards , now bid them retrench , And ever the nail of my argument clench With broad - sword Latin or small - sword French , All to ...
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