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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Käufer können in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1761 edition. Auszug: ... to endeavour to please all mankind. FABLE FABLE II. The Sorceress. NIGHT and silence had now given repose to the whole world; when an old illnatured Sorceress, in order to exercise her insernal arts, entered into a gloomy wood, that trembled at her approach. The scene of her horrid incantations was within the circumserence of a large circle; in the center of which an altar was raised, where the hallowed vervain blazed in triangular flames, while the mischievous hag pronounced the dreadful words,which bound all hell in obedience to her charms. She blows a raging pestilence from her lips into the neighbouring folds; the innocent cattle die, to afford a sit sacrisice to the insernal deities. The moon, by powerful spells drawn down from her orb, enters the wood: legions of spirits from Pluto's realms appear before the altar, and demand her pleasure. Tell me, said she, where I shall sind what I have lost, my savorite little dog. How!--cryed they all, enraged--Impertinent Beldame! must the order of nature be inverted, and F 2 the the repose of every creature disturbed, for the fake of thy little dog? FABLE III. The Camtlion TW O travellers happened cm their journey to be engaged in a warm dispute about the colour of the Camelion. One of them asfirmed that it was blue; that he had seen it with his own eyes, upon the naked branch of a tree, seeding on the air. in a very clear day. The other strongly asserted that it was green, and that he had viewed it very closely and minutely on the broad leaf of a sig tree. Both of them were positive, and the dispute was rising to a quarrel: but a third person luckily coming by, they agreed to reser the question to his decision. Gentlemen, faid the arbitrator,...
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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Käufer können in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1761 edition. Auszug: ... to endeavour to please all mankind. FABLE FABLE II. The Sorceress. NIGHT and silence had now given repose to the whole world; when an old illnatured Sorceress, in order to exercise her insernal arts, entered into a gloomy wood, that trembled at her approach. The scene of her horrid incantations was within the circumserence of a large circle; in the center of which an altar was raised, where the hallowed vervain blazed in triangular flames, while the mischievous hag pronounced the dreadful words,which bound all hell in obedience to her charms. She blows a raging pestilence from her lips into the neighbouring folds; the innocent cattle die, to afford a sit sacrisice to the insernal deities. The moon, by powerful spells drawn down from her orb, enters the wood: legions of spirits from Pluto's realms appear before the altar, and demand her pleasure. Tell me, said she, where I shall sind what I have lost, my savorite little dog. How!--cryed they all, enraged--Impertinent Beldame! must the order of nature be inverted, and F 2 the the repose of every creature disturbed, for the fake of thy little dog? FABLE III. The Camtlion TW O travellers happened cm their journey to be engaged in a warm dispute about the colour of the Camelion. One of them asfirmed that it was blue; that he had seen it with his own eyes, upon the naked branch of a tree, seeding on the air. in a very clear day. The other strongly asserted that it was green, and that he had viewed it very closely and minutely on the broad leaf of a sig tree. Both of them were positive, and the dispute was rising to a quarrel: but a third person luckily coming by, they agreed to reser the question to his decision. Gentlemen, faid the arbitrator,...
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