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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 363
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SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...in publick, in different villages within a certain diftance from his convent. One day he allembled his congregation under a tree on which a magpye had built her neft, into which he had prcvioufly found means to convey a fmall box, filled with gunpowder, which he had "well fecured therein;...
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Memorials of Human Superstition: Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the ...

Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 438 pages
...preach in public, in different villages within a certain diftance from his Convent. One day he aflembled his congregation under a tree on which a magpye had...neft, into which he had previoufly found means to con-" vey a fmall box filled with gunpowder, which he had well fecured therein; and out of the box...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck ...: Containing The Young ...

Charles Buck - 1808 - 362 pages
...magpie had built her nest, into which he had found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, and out of the box hung a long thin match that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the trees. As soon as the monk or his assistant had touched...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the ..., Volume 3

Charles Buck - 1808 - 374 pages
...magpie had built her nest, into which he had found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, and out of the box hung a long thin match that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the trees. As soon as the monk or his assistant had touched...
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The Recreative Magazine, Volume 1

1822 - 590 pages
...he had previously found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, which he had well secured therein; and out of the box hung a long thin match, that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the tree. As soon as the monk or his confederate, had touched...
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Cabinet of Curiosities: Natural, Artificial, and Historical, Volume 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1822 - 368 pages
...he had previously found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, which he had well secured therein ; and out of the box hung a long thin match, that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the tree. As soon as the monk or his confederate, had touched...
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The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal, Volume 1

1826 - 404 pages
...he had previously found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, which he had well secured therein ; and out of the box hung a long thin match, that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the tree. As soon as the monk or his confederate, had touched...
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The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal: Containing ..., Volume 1

William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...he had previously found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, which he had well secured therein ; and out of the box hung a long thin match, that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the tree. As soon as the monk or his confederate, had touched...
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Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining

Charles Buck - 1831 - 418 pages
...magpie had built her nest, into which, tie had found means to convey a small box filled with gunpowder, and out of the box hung a long thin match that was to bum slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the trees. As soon as the monk or his assistant had...
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An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events: Which ...

John Warner Barber - 1834 - 454 pages
...magpie had built her nest, into which he found means to convey a small 128 box filled with gunpowder, and out of the box hung a long thin match that was to burn slowly, and was hidden among the leaves of the tree. As soon as the monk, or his assistant, had touched...
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