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... to be travellers should be thrown into a pail of ice the moment they are born, and then transferred for half an hour to the kitchen fire ; they may have to swim across frozen rivers, and run a race in the torrid zone, more than once, before they die...

The Continental Traveller's Oracle; Or, Maxims for Foreign Locomotion - Pàgina 112
per Sir Thomas Wyse - 1828
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volum 24

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 580 pàgines

...in the torrid zone, more than once, before they die: —they should be often fed on bread and watert and sometimes not at all; in the deserts of Arabia there is seldom either: — they should be clail thinly ;— the brigands of Terracina frequently strip their victims: — they should know how...

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