The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man:: Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, in Many Thousand Most Interesting Relations of Persons Remarkable for Bodily Perfections Or Defects; Collected from the Writings of the Most Approved Historians, Philosophers, and Physicians, of All Ages and Countries. Forming a Complete System of the Mental and Corporeal Powers and Defects of Human Nature; and Intended to Increase Knowledge, to Promote Virtue, to Discourage Vice, and to Furnish Topics for Innocent and Ingenious Conversation, Volumen1

W.J. and J. Richardson; Otridge and Son; R. Faulder; Cuthell and Martin; [and 14 others] ... Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe., 1806

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Of the rigorous Severity of some	7

Of Children undutiful and unnatural	13

Of such Husbands as were unnatural	19

Of the grievous Oppressions	39

Of the excessive Prodigality of some	51

Of the Voraciousnesss of some great	57

Of the Luxury and Expense of some	63

Of such as by the Sight of the Face	236

Of the most eminent Artists	243

BOOK VI	274

Of what Monsters some Women have	280

Of the Signatures and natural Marks	286

Of Presages of good or evil Fortune	295

Of famous Predictions of some Men	303

Of several illustrious Persons abused	312

Of the dangerous and destructive	71

Of Impostors who have assumed	116

Of the great Desire of Glory in some	122

Of the Insolence of some Men	130

Of litigious Men and bloody Quar	137

Of the gross Flatteries of some	143

Of such Persons as could not endure	146

Of the Perfidiousness and Treachery	153

Of the libidinous and unchaste Life	161

Of such as have been warned of their	167

Of the Eastern Greek and Turkish	189

Of such Men as have been the Fra	211

Of such as were eminent Seamen	217

Of the most famous Greek and Latin	223

Of Music the strange Efficacy of	232

Of the magnificent Buildings and	319

Of the choicest Libraries in	324

Of wonderful and sudden Changes	334

Of such as have left Places of highest	346

Of sundry Customs that were in	357

Of the several Things that different	366

Of the Manner of the Food which	372

Of such as refused all Drink or	385

Of such as have fallen into Trances	396

Of Matters of Importance and high	403

Of such Princes and Persons as have	410

Of such Persons as have been	443

Of such Persons as were the first Lea	497

818	499

Of Recreations some Men have	504

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Título	The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man:: Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, in Many Thousand Most Interesting Relations of Persons Remarkable for Bodily Perfections Or Defects; Collected from the Writings ..., Volumen1 The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man:: Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, in Many Thousand Most Interesting Relations of Persons Remarkable for Bodily Perfections Or Defects; Collected from the Writings of the Most Approved Historians, Philosophers, and Physicians, of All Ages and Countries. Forming a Complete System of the Mental and Corporeal Powers and Defects of Human Nature; and Intended to Increase Knowledge, to Promote Virtue, to Discourage Vice, and to Furnish Topics for Innocent and Ingenious Conversation, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Autor	Nathaniel Wanley
Colaboradores	Robert Wilks, Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson (Firm), Cuthell and Martin, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe
Editor	W.J. and J. Richardson; Otridge and Son; R. Faulder; Cuthell and Martin; [and 14 others] ... Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe., 1806
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Oxford
Digitalizado	1 Nov. 2007

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