Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papersW. Pickering, 1835 - Christian ethics |
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... inter her , although not after this hilly and submontaneous sepulture ; for according to the account of ... ? the his- torian , before the battle she told the Bri- tons that if they went against them , they would retire into the fens ...
... inter her , although not after this hilly and submontaneous sepulture ; for according to the account of ... ? the his- torian , before the battle she told the Bri- tons that if they went against them , they would retire into the fens ...
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... inter vincla cicuta Accusatori nollet dare . - Juv . Not so mild Thales , nor Chrysippus thought ; Nor the good man who drank the pois nous draught With mind serene , and could not wish to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he ...
... inter vincla cicuta Accusatori nollet dare . - Juv . Not so mild Thales , nor Chrysippus thought ; Nor the good man who drank the pois nous draught With mind serene , and could not wish to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he ...
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... inter- pretation of the same , où yàg zaigòs oúzwv , for it was not a good or seasonable year for figs . But , because men part not easily with old beliefs or the re- ceived construction of words , we shall briefly set down what may be ...
... inter- pretation of the same , où yàg zaigòs oúzwv , for it was not a good or seasonable year for figs . But , because men part not easily with old beliefs or the re- ceived construction of words , we shall briefly set down what may be ...
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... inter- pretations , sometimes for degenerated corn , sometimes for the black seeds in wheat , but withal concludes , an hæc sit eadem vox aut species cum zizaniâ apud evangelistam , quærant alii . But lexicons and dictionaries by ...
... inter- pretations , sometimes for degenerated corn , sometimes for the black seeds in wheat , but withal concludes , an hæc sit eadem vox aut species cum zizaniâ apud evangelistam , quærant alii . But lexicons and dictionaries by ...
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... inter- preted morose , without a word of expla- nation or proof . It never could have been used in that sense . Its derivation is so very obvious , that it is wonderful it escaped Ray . It is amply justified by modern and very frequent ...
... inter- preted morose , without a word of expla- nation or proof . It never could have been used in that sense . Its derivation is so very obvious , that it is wonderful it escaped Ray . It is amply justified by modern and very frequent ...
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Page 152 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 132 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 148 - For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree...
Page 158 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Page 133 - Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Page 155 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Page 389 - ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth...
Page 64 - Virtues and Vices. Think not that Morality is Ambulatory ; that Vices in one age are not Vices in another ; or that Virtues, which are under the everlasting Seal of right Reason, may be Stamped by Opinion.
Page 137 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 170 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.