Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... hath an erect figure . THAT only man hath an erect figure , and for to behold and look up toward heaven , according to that of the poet : ' Pronaque cum spectant animalia cætera terram , Os homini sublime dedit , cœlumque tueri Jussit ...
... hath an erect figure . THAT only man hath an erect figure , and for to behold and look up toward heaven , according to that of the poet : ' Pronaque cum spectant animalia cætera terram , Os homini sublime dedit , cœlumque tueri Jussit ...
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... hath a notable dis- advantage in the eye - lid , whereof the upper is far greater than the lower , which abridgeth the sight upwards contrary to those of birds , who herein have the advantage of man ; insomuch that the learned Plempius ...
... hath a notable dis- advantage in the eye - lid , whereof the upper is far greater than the lower , which abridgeth the sight upwards contrary to those of birds , who herein have the advantage of man ; insomuch that the learned Plempius ...
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... hath the largest brain , 1 I did I confess somewhat doubt , and conceived it might have failed in birds , especially such as having little bodies , have yet large cranies , and seem to contain much brain , as snipes , woodcocks , & c ...
... hath the largest brain , 1 I did I confess somewhat doubt , and conceived it might have failed in birds , especially such as having little bodies , have yet large cranies , and seem to contain much brain , as snipes , woodcocks , & c ...
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... hath the honour to bear our rings . Which was not only the Christian practice in nuptial contracts , but observed by heathens , as Alexander ab Alexandro , Gellius , Macrobius and Pierius have delivered , as Levinus Lemnius hath ...
... hath the honour to bear our rings . Which was not only the Christian practice in nuptial contracts , but observed by heathens , as Alexander ab Alexandro , Gellius , Macrobius and Pierius have delivered , as Levinus Lemnius hath ...
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... hath al- leged another reason ; affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger , might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation , than any cordial relation . For at first ( saith he ) it was both free and ...
... hath al- leged another reason ; affirming that the gestation of rings upon this hand and finger , might rather be used for their conveniency and preservation , than any cordial relation . For at first ( saith he ) it was both free 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...