Mythical Monsters: eBook EditionJazzybee Verlag, 2013 M12 10 - 488 páginas An exploration into all beasts fabled, fabricated, fantastical, and fanciful, from across the world, including the Chinese and Japanese Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, and the spate of Sea Serpents sighted off the 19th century New England coast. |
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... , come legitimately within the scope of plain matteroffact Natural History, and that they may be considered, not as the outcome of exuberant fancy, but as creatures which really once existed, and of which, unfortunately, only Introduction.
... , come legitimately within the scope of plain matteroffact Natural History, and that they may be considered, not as the outcome of exuberant fancy, but as creatures which really once existed, and of which, unfortunately, only Introduction.
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... creatures are not chimeras but objects of rational study. The dragon, in place of being a creature evolved out of the imagination of Aryan man by the contemplation of lightning flashing through the caverns which he tenanted, as is held ...
... creatures are not chimeras but objects of rational study. The dragon, in place of being a creature evolved out of the imagination of Aryan man by the contemplation of lightning flashing through the caverns which he tenanted, as is held ...
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... creatures whose existence I shall have to contend for in these volumes are objects of derision to a large proportion of mankind, and of reasonable doubt to another, I cannot help fortifying myself with some such outwork of reasoning as ...
... creatures whose existence I shall have to contend for in these volumes are objects of derision to a large proportion of mankind, and of reasonable doubt to another, I cannot help fortifying myself with some such outwork of reasoning as ...
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... creatures apparently monstrous, we duly reflect upon the extraordinary, almost miraculous, events which incessantly occur in the course of the short existence of all animated nature? Supposing the history of insects were unknown to us ...
... creatures apparently monstrous, we duly reflect upon the extraordinary, almost miraculous, events which incessantly occur in the course of the short existence of all animated nature? Supposing the history of insects were unknown to us ...
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... creature so monstrous that it may not be paralleled by existing ones in everyday life. Are the composite creatures of Chaldæan mythology so very much more wonderful than the marsupial kangaroo, the duckbilled platypus, and the flying ...
... creature so monstrous that it may not be paralleled by existing ones in everyday life. Are the composite creatures of Chaldæan mythology so very much more wonderful than the marsupial kangaroo, the duckbilled platypus, and the flying ...
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