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The book of similitudes: (1860)

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 524

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been one. All who saw him concur in describing him as ex-hibiting one of the most peculiarly awful visages thatever saddened the bed of death. It was an uniquefa?-e, possessing an assemblage of every vicious anddismal passion ; and so terrific as to deter many of hisacquaintance from repeating… … WORSHIP OF THE GRAND LAMA. The Grand Lama, or High Priest of the Thibetian Tartars, re-sides at a vast palace on a mountain near Lassa. He is wor-shiped by the natives of Thibet, and by tribes of Tartars, whocome every year from various parts of Asia and worship at hisshrine. 22* 514 the…

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