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Page 204 - A party of peasantwomen and girls assemble in some retired, unfrequented spot, and light a large fire, over which they leap in succession. If by chance any one of the other sex should be found near the place, or should have seen them in the act of performing the heathenish rite, it is at the imminent hazard of his life, for the women would not scruple to sacrifice him for his temerity : I was assured that such instances had often been known.
Page 316 - A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF THE HOLY BIBLE. Containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, collected and arranged systematically, In thirty books (based on the work of the learned Talbot), together with an Introduction setting forth the character of the work, and the immense facility this method affords for understanding the Word of God : also three different Tables of Contents prefixed, and a general Index subjoined, so elaborated and arranged, in alphabetical order, as to direct at once to any...
Page 149 - Ihe most likely to serve his owner's views, was most distasteful to himself, as he had genius for better things. He had no sooner served his time than the amount of poll-tax was yearly demanded : as everybody does not have a likeness taken, especially in a provincial town, it was no small difficulty to pay it. When we last saw him he had pined into a decline, and doubtless ere this the village grave has closed over his griefs and sorrows, and buried his genius in the shades of its eternal oblivion.
Page 82 - ... governor's table ; his agreeable manners and accomplishments, joined to his misfortune, made him a general favorite, and caused much interest ; he could read French, German, Russian, and Polish ; was a connoisseur of art, and showed us several pretty drawings of his own execution. Two or three times I was struck with an expression of more intelligence in his face than one would expect when any conversation was going on behind his back. It was not until three years after, that I accidentally heard...