 A dog was then brought forward, and being placed at the lower end of the chain, immediately ran up, and reaching the other end, immediately disappeared in the air. In the same manner, a hog, a panther, a lion, and a tiger, were alternately sent up the...  Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir - Page 98by Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) - 1829 - 141 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...the sheaf suspended in the air, the whole immediately broke asunder, and came at once to the earth. ' They produced a chain of fifty cubits in length, and...affirm was beyond measure strange and surprising." —pp. 100-103. As we are dealing with the marvellous, we may as well notice a strange story, somewhat... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...air in the mysterious manner above described. This, 1 may venture to affirm, was beyond measure strange and surprising." In all, he mentions twenty-eight... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...affirm, was beyond measure strange and surprising. In aH he mentions twenty-eight different tricks, which amnsed and puzzled him. and the royal reflections... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...the sheaf suspended in the air, the whole immediately broke asunder, and came at once to the earth. ' They produced a chain of fifty cubits in length, and...affirm was beyond measure strange and surprising.' —pp. 100-103. As we are dealing with the marvellous, we may as well notice a strange story, somewhat... | |
 | 1845 - 304 pages
...upper end of the chain. At last, they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discerning in what way the different animals were made to vanish...affirm, was beyond measure strange and surprising." Ibn Batuta (the celebrated traveller, who has been called the Mahometan Marco Polo of the fourteenth... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...the air in the mysterious manner above described." aangevangen in den Jaare 1660 en geendigd in den Jaare 1677, Amsterdam, 1702, p. 468; Mem. of the Emp.... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pages
...successively sent up the chain ; at last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...the air in the mysterious manner above described." Vol. I., Notes. Book L, p. 280. We will conclude by giving one more extract from the Colonel's notes,... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...the air in the mysterious manner above described." In Philostratus, again, we may learn the antiquity of some juggling tricks that have come up as novelties... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...the air in the mysterious manner above described." a man set his son against a board, and then threw darts tracing the outline of the boy's figure on... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pages
...at the upper end of the chain. At last they took down the chain and put it into a bag, no one ever discovering in what way the different animals were...the air in the mysterious manner above described." In Philostratus, again, we may learn the antiquity of some juggling tricks that have come up as novelties... | |
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