Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... doth the frog , though stretched out , or swimming , attain the rectitude of man , or 1 The poet . ] Ovid . Met . i , 84 . also Cicero , De Nat . Deor . ii , 56 . See 2 Man only is erect . ] But itt is most evident that baboones and ...
... doth the frog , though stretched out , or swimming , attain the rectitude of man , or 1 The poet . ] Ovid . Met . i , 84 . also Cicero , De Nat . Deor . ii , 56 . See 2 Man only is erect . ] But itt is most evident that baboones and ...
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... doth not , except he recline , or bend his head backward ; and thus to look up to heaven agreeth not only unto man but asses ; to omit birds with long necks , which look not only upward , but round about at pleasure ; and therefore men ...
... doth not , except he recline , or bend his head backward ; and thus to look up to heaven agreeth not only unto man but asses ; to omit birds with long necks , which look not only upward , but round about at pleasure ; and therefore men ...
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... doth seem to incline upon the left ; which happeneth not from its proper site , but besides its sinistrous gravity , is same on the substilar line , which declines east or west , as the place does , wherein ' tis drawne . - Wr . 8 ...
... doth seem to incline upon the left ; which happeneth not from its proper site , but besides its sinistrous gravity , is same on the substilar line , which declines east or west , as the place does , wherein ' tis drawne . - Wr . 8 ...
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... doth furnish the left emulgent with one vein , and the first vein of the loins on the right side with another ; which manner of derivation doth not confer a peculiar addition unto either . Cælius Rhodiginus , undertaking to give a ...
... doth furnish the left emulgent with one vein , and the first vein of the loins on the right side with another ; which manner of derivation doth not confer a peculiar addition unto either . Cælius Rhodiginus , undertaking to give a ...
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... doth not properly admit it . For first , many in their infancy are sinis- trously disposed , and divers continue all their life ' Agioregoì , that is , left - handed , and have but weak and imperfect use of the right ; now unto these ...
... doth not properly admit it . For first , many in their infancy are sinis- trously disposed , and divers continue all their life ' Agioregoì , that is , left - handed , and have but weak and imperfect use of the right ; now unto these ...
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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...