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Page 42 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 30 - EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA, que contiene su tercera salida y es la quinta parte de sus aventuras Edición, introducción y notas de Fernando G. Salinero. 42 / Antonio Machado JUAN DE MAIRENA (1936) Edición, introducción y notas de José M.
Page 39 - Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr.
Page 151 - TRUMBULL (Henry). History of the Discovery of. America, of the Landing of our Forefathers, at Plymouth, and of their most remarkable Engagements with the Indians in NewEngland, from their first landing in 1620, until the final subjugation of the Natives in 1679.
Page 173 - Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England.
Page 39 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 150 - The Treaty held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742. To which is prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies, half mor.
Page 70 - THE THANATOPHIDIA OF INDIA; being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula. With an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life, and a Series of Experiments.
Page 212 - Dos libros el uno • que trata de todas las Cosas que traen de Nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la Medicina...
Page 58 - Antiquities of Mexico : comprising FacSimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden...