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Seite 293 - As by their choice collections may appear, Of what is rare in land, in seas, in air ; Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut. These famous antiquarians — that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily queen — Transplanted...
Seite 23 - Documents relatifs aux tremblements de terre dans le nord de l'Europe et de l'Asie (Ann.
Seite 293 - Iliad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut : These famous Antiquarians, that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen, Transplanted now themselves, sleep here ; and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men, And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, And change this garden for a paradise.
Seite 35 - RÉSUMÉ DES OBSERVATIONS MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES FAITES DANS L'ÉTENDUE DE L'EMPIRE DE RUSSIE et déposées aux archives météorologiques de l'académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg.
Seite 287 - They go in company by dozens, and set upon a young whale, and will bite him like so many bulldogs ; some will lay hold of his tail, to keep him from threshing, while others lay hold of his head, and bite and thresh him, till the poor creature, being thus heated, lolls out his tongue ; and then some of the killers catch hold of his lips, and if possible, of his tongue ; and after they have killed him they chiefly feed upon the tongue and head, but when he begins to putrefy they leave him.
Seite 40 - Notice historique sur les trois dernières années du règne de Wakhtang VI et sur son arrivée en Russie d'après des documents authentiques.
Seite 272 - I may imagine, for our coopers, for the great caske of caveare, and the Fleming, Hollanders, and Hamburgers, and Russes, spend such abundance, yet our people bring them away for the hooping of the cask in Greenland ; and by the report of the coopers, they be the best hoops in the world, for they say, in a whole day they break not on.
Seite 232 - Company) did rule all our busines, and wee had thought that you had been ruler over your lande and had sought honor to your self and profitt to your countrie, and, therefore, wee did pretend those weightie affaires between you and us.
Seite 276 - he had on which he hathe rod a whole day together, and at night hathe give him a littill provender, and the next day hathe don the like, and so for many dayes, and yet he confessethe that he hathe not known seldom one of tire. " For ther streets they be paved withe goodli timber trees, cleft in the middell, for they have not the use of sawing in the land, espetiali in that part whear I was, neyther the use of planing withe the plane, but onlie withe a shave, or as some parts of this kingdom calleth...
Seite 268 - ... peeces being hardli so good as our calliver, neyther had the soulgers any expertnce like to thees in thees parts." On the same evening some Samoiedes came off to the vessel in a boat, and are thus described by Tradescant:— " That night (16 July) came abord of our ship a boat of Sammoyets, a miserable people, of small growth. In my judgment is that people whom the fixtion is fayned of that should have no heads, for they have short necks, and commonly wear ther clothes over head and shoulders.