The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 288
... Menippus the philofopher was a fecond time taken up into heaven by Jupiter , when for his entertainment he lifted up a trap door that was placed by his footftool . At its rifing , there iffued through it fuch a din of cries as ...
... Menippus the philofopher was a fecond time taken up into heaven by Jupiter , when for his entertainment he lifted up a trap door that was placed by his footftool . At its rifing , there iffued through it fuch a din of cries as ...
Page 289
... Menippus knew it by the voice to be the prayer of his friend Licander the philofopher . This was fucceeded by the petition of one who had juft laden a fhip , and promifed Jupiter , if he took care of it , and returned it home again full ...
... Menippus knew it by the voice to be the prayer of his friend Licander the philofopher . This was fucceeded by the petition of one who had juft laden a fhip , and promifed Jupiter , if he took care of it , and returned it home again full ...
Page 290
... Menippus fancied that fuch lamentable cries arofe from fome general execu tion , or from wretches lying under the tortare ; but Jupiter old him that they came up to him from the ifle of Pa phos , and that he every day received ...
... Menippus fancied that fuch lamentable cries arofe from fome general execu tion , or from wretches lying under the tortare ; but Jupiter old him that they came up to him from the ifle of Pa phos , and that he every day received ...
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