The Wonders of the Little World: Or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, Band 2

Nathaniel Wanley

W. J. and J. Richardson, 1806

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BOOK IV	1

Of the rigorous Severity of some	2

Of Children undutiful and unnatural	2

Of such Husbands as were unnatural	19

Of the bittter Revenges that some	34

Of the bloody and cruel Massacres	42

Of the excessive Prodigality of some	51

Of the Voraciousnesss of some great	57

Of Women who have carried their	275

Of the Birthday and what bath	284

Of Presages of good or evil Fortune	295

Of famous Predictions of some M	303

Of several illustrious Persons	312

Of the magnificent Buildings	319

Of the choicest Libraries in	324

Of wonderful and sudden Changes	334

Of the Luxury and Expense of some	63

Of the Ambition of some Men	120

Of the intolerable Pride and Haugh	126

Of the Rashness and Temerity	134

Of such as have been too fearful	140

Of such Persons as could not endure	146

Of the Perfidiousness and Treachery	153

Of such as have been warned of their	167

Of Men of unusual Misfortunes	173

Of the Eastern Greek and Turkish	189

Of the Bishops and Popes of Rome	197

Of such Men as have been the Fra	211

Of such as were eminent Scamen	217

Of the most famous Greek and Latin	223

Of Music the strange Elheary of	232

Of the Painters in former Times	239

Of such as have left Places of highest	346

Of sundry Customs that were in	357

Of the several Things that different	366

Of the Manner of the Food which	372

Of such as refused all Drink or	385

Of such as have fallen into Trances	396

Of Matters of Importance and high	403

Of such Princes and Persons as have	410

Of Retaliation and of such as have	438

Of the extraordinary Honours done	446

Of Stratagems in War for the amu	465

Of the secret Ways of Dispatch	473

Of Conscience the Force and Effects	490

Of such Persons as were the first Lea	497

Of Recreations some Men have	534

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Seite 68 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.‎

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Seite 451 - He built two huts with pimento trees, covered them with long grass, and lined them with the skins of goats, which he killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound ; and that being near spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento wood together upon his knee.‎

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Seite 293 - Wotton, dean of Canterbury, whom I formerly mentioned, being then ambassador in France, dreamed that his nephew, this Thomas Wotton, was inclined to be a party in such a project as, if he were not suddenly prevented, would turn both to the loss of his life, and ruin of his family. Doubtless the good dean did well know...‎

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Seite 97 - The vivacious vicar hereof living under King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, then a Protestant again. He had seen some martyrs burnt (two miles off) at Windsor, and found this fire too hot for his tender temper. This vicar being taxed by one for being a turncoat and an inconstant changeling, — ‎

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Seite 318 - Berkshire had made, to which all the adjacent gentlemen were invited. When he went out, he took care to set the boy a double exercise in the Latin tongue, which he taught his children himself, with a strict charge not to stir out of the room till his return, well knowing the task he had set him would take up much longer time.‎

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Titel	The Wonders of the Little World: Or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, Band 2 The Wonders of the Little World: Or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, Nathaniel Wanley
Autor/in	Nathaniel Wanley
Verlag	W. J. and J. Richardson, 1806
Original von	New York Public Library
Digitalisiert	27. Sept. 2007

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