Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... hair • Chap . 8. Of the picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac • PAGE 99 to 102 102 to 110 111 to 112 113 to 114 114 to 116 117 to 122 Chap . 9. Of the picture of Moses with horns Chap . 10. Of the scutcheons of the twelve tribes of ...
... hair • Chap . 8. Of the picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac • PAGE 99 to 102 102 to 110 111 to 112 113 to 114 114 to 116 117 to 122 Chap . 9. Of the picture of Moses with horns Chap . 10. Of the scutcheons of the twelve tribes of ...
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... hair in milk.8 Now if any shall affirm , that some truth there is in the assertion , upon the experiment of Hippocrates , who , killing an hog after a red potion , found the tincture thereof in the larynx ; if any will urge the same ...
... hair in milk.8 Now if any shall affirm , that some truth there is in the assertion , upon the experiment of Hippocrates , who , killing an hog after a red potion , found the tincture thereof in the larynx ; if any will urge the same ...
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... hairs of her head . " + Which actions , if our Saviour sat , she could not perform standing , and had rather stood behind his back than at his feet . And therefore it is not allowable , what is observable in many pieces , and even of ...
... hairs of her head . " + Which actions , if our Saviour sat , she could not perform standing , and had rather stood behind his back than at his feet . And therefore it is not allowable , what is observable in many pieces , and even of ...
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... Hair . ANOTHER picture there is of our Saviour described with long hair , according to the custom of the Jews , and his descrip- tion sent by Lentulus unto the senate . Wherein indeed the hand of the painter is not accusable , but the.
... Hair . ANOTHER picture there is of our Saviour described with long hair , according to the custom of the Jews , and his descrip- tion sent by Lentulus unto the senate . Wherein indeed the hand of the painter is not accusable , but the.
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... hair , because he was a Nazarite ; and confounding a Nazarite by vow , with those by birth or education . The Nazarite by vow is declared , Numbers vi ; and was to refrain three things , drinking of wine , cutting the hair , and ...
... hair , because he was a Nazarite ; and confounding a Nazarite by vow , with those by birth or education . The Nazarite by vow is declared , Numbers vi ; and was to refrain three things , drinking of wine , cutting the hair , and ...
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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...