 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...living1 creatures exceeding a foot of height that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means he made it appear...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof... | |
 | 1831 - 444 pages
...Jiving creatures exceeding a foot of height that should be found thereon, how nearsoever they might he to one another ; by which means he made it appear...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height, that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means he made it appear,...with the help of this machine alone, to kill thirty thousand Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said, that (upon a wager) he gave... | |
 | sir Thomas Urquhart - 1834 - 472 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of hight, that should be found thereon, how neer soever they might be to one another; by which means he made it appear that...with the help of this machine alone, to kill thirty thousand Turkes, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said, that, upon a wager, he gave... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 448 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height, that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means, he made it appear,...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this, it is said that (upon a wager) he gave... | |
 | John Timbs - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 432 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means he made it appear...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks without the hazard of one Christian. Of this, it is said, upon a wager, he gave proof... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...of all the living creatures exceeding a foot in height that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be found to one another ; by which means...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (on a wager) he gave proof... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means he made it appear...able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof... | |
 | Cargill Gilston Knott - Logarithms - 1915 - 498 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height, that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another, by which means he made it appear that...with the help of this machine alone, to kill thirty thousand Turks without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave... | |
 | Peter Hume Brown - Scotland - 1919 - 360 pages
...living creatures exceeding a foot of height, that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another, by which means he made it appear that...with the help of this machine alone, to kill thirty thousand Turks without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave... | |
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Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile... 
