Mammuth, Or Human Nature Displayed on a Grand Scale: In a Tour with the Tinkers, Into the Inland Parts of Africa, Volum 1J. Murray, 1789 |
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Side 101 - April 18th, 1676, and lye buried in this place." *' This monument stands to the west of Sudbury causeway, about one mile southward of the church in old Sudbury, and about a quarter of a mile from the great road, that leads from Worcester to Boston.
Side 118 - Thou hideft thy face, they are troubled ; thou takeft away their breath, they die, and return to their duft. 30 Thou fendeft forth thy fpirit, they are created : and thou reneweft the face of the earth.
Side 117 - He caufeth the grafs to grow for " the cattle, and herb for the fervice of
Side 117 - He fendeth the fprings into the valleys, " which run among the hills. They give " drink to every beaft of the field; the " wild afles quench their thirft. By them " fhall the fowls of heaven have their habi" tation, and fing among the branches.
Side 104 - A boy of four years faid diftinftly at the fame time, " Good " night grandfather." " Thefe are " our children," faid this wonderful artificer in leather, " they, in this " manner, falute their grandfather " every evening and every morning. " That old man whom you fee bufy ** in the garden is my father. He is ** to be placed, after death, by the " fide of the minifter, and is to be a ** frame for a piece of mechanifm " contrived to play fome folemn " church mufic; fo that he is to be " precentor or...
Side 109 - It was to hinder fouls from going " fooner into other places, that the " Egyptians embalmed, with fo " much care, their dead relations. •* Myrrh, with other perfumes, and " bandages of fine linen dipped in * ' gum, made the inanimate bodies ** of the Egyptians as hard as if they " had been compofed of marble. I " cannot help thinking,'' faid my fhoemaker, " 'that your countryman, ** Lord Monboddo, inftead of ex.
Side 106 - Egyptians pof*' fefled ! I mean that of mummyF 5 " making, 106 MAMMUTHj ox, " making, or embalming the dead. " We are but children to the Egyp" tians in the art of making mum" mies. Dr. Hunter himfelf would " have been undone in this art by " any old nurfe in Egypt. As the " art of embalming is not wholly " unconnected with that of tanning " leather, for we drefs our own " leather, I have provided a cOn...
Side 246 - Thefe being rejected, he determined to pufh the war with vigour ; and he would have done it. had he been properly ferved. " Very well," faid my companion, " it plainly appears that *' fame, in your part of the world, " has nothing to do with merit, " and that, in reality, to have a name, " to be talked of any how, is glory.
Side 103 - is the " ikeleton of my grandfather, which " I made with the afliftance of a poor " ftudent from Edinburgh. I have " fitted up a clock in the midft of it, " which ferves at once as a memento " mori, and to meafure time. This...
Side 121 - I fee you will per" fevere in your attacks on the pig. " Since it is fo, here boy, take that " key and fetch a quart of October; ** Fermented liquor is neceflary to " digeft animal food. For vegetables, " and milk in all its modifications, ** it is not neceflary. Come, lince my " vifitors will not join me, I will ** play the fool for once, for fociety's " fake, and facrifice a pleafing " dream, in honour of my company. " Hand me thofe eels ;" of which he began to eat with a good appetite. The herdfmen,...