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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... existence of the unicorn seems not incredible, and, in fact, more probable than that theory which assigns its origin to a lunar myth. Again, believing as I do in the existence of some great undescribed inhabitant of the ocean depths ...
... existence of the unicorn seems not incredible, and, in fact, more probable than that theory which assigns its origin to a lunar myth. Again, believing as I do in the existence of some great undescribed inhabitant of the ocean depths ...
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... 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 the pith of ...
... 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 the pith of ...
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... existence. So prepossessed were scientific men with this idea, which yet rested on purely negative evidence, and could not be supported by any argument of scientific value, that numerous facts which had been presented at intervals for ...
... existence. So prepossessed were scientific men with this idea, which yet rested on purely negative evidence, and could not be supported by any argument of scientific value, that numerous facts which had been presented at intervals for ...
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... existence of Homer has been denied, and even the authorship of Shakespeare's plays questioned. We are all familiar enough now with the black swan, but Ovid considered it as so utterly impossible that he clinched, as it were, an ...
... existence of Homer has been denied, and even the authorship of Shakespeare's plays questioned. We are all familiar enough now with the black swan, but Ovid considered it as so utterly impossible that he clinched, as it were, an ...
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... existence of all animated nature? Supposing the history of insects were unknown to us, could the wildest imagination conceive such a marvellous transformation as that which takes place continually around us in the passage from the larva ...
... existence of all animated nature? Supposing the history of insects were unknown to us, could the wildest imagination conceive such a marvellous transformation as that which takes place continually around us in the passage from the larva ...
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