Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... 2nd edition . Man hath , & c . ] This is most especially true when spoken of " the hemispheres of the brain , " that is , of that part of this organ which serves as the principal in- strument of the intellectual operations . See Cuvier ...
... 2nd edition . Man hath , & c . ] This is most especially true when spoken of " the hemispheres of the brain , " that is , of that part of this organ which serves as the principal in- strument of the intellectual operations . See Cuvier ...
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... 2 CHAPTER III . That Pleurisies are only on the left side . THAT pleurisies are only on the left side , is a popular tenet not only ... 2nd edition . before and behind , that is , inclining to the CHAP . III . ] 7 AND COMMON ERRORS . to.
... 2 CHAPTER III . That Pleurisies are only on the left side . THAT pleurisies are only on the left side , is a popular tenet not only ... 2nd edition . before and behind , that is , inclining to the CHAP . III . ] 7 AND COMMON ERRORS . to.
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... 2nd edition . CHAPTER VII . That Men weigh heavier dead than alive CHAP . VI . ] 27 AND COMMON ERRORS . to.
... 2nd edition . CHAPTER VII . That Men weigh heavier dead than alive CHAP . VI . ] 27 AND COMMON ERRORS . to.
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... 2nd edition . I subjoin several references here trans- cribed from a copy belonging to my late friend Rev. Jos . Jefferson ; which may be useful to others , though I have not had opportunity to avail myself of them . See Pluche i , 266 ...
... 2nd edition . I subjoin several references here trans- cribed from a copy belonging to my late friend Rev. Jos . Jefferson ; which may be useful to others , though I have not had opportunity to avail myself of them . See Pluche i , 266 ...
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... edition . was added in 2nd edition ; the next Dion , ' thus or thus was the air disposed CHAP . XIII . ] 71 AND COMMON ERRORS .
... edition . was added in 2nd edition ; the next Dion , ' thus or thus was the air disposed CHAP . XIII . ] 71 AND COMMON ERRORS .
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Page 108 - And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
Page 195 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 303 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 132 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 319 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 488 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,!
Page 491 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 110 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 445 - I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer, were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.
Page 494 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...