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... hath his name from the hog hee resembles in convexity and curvitye of his backe , from the head to the tayle : nor is hee otherwise curbe , then as a hog is except that before a storme , hee tumbles just as a hog runs . That which I ...
... hath his name from the hog hee resembles in convexity and curvitye of his backe , from the head to the tayle : nor is hee otherwise curbe , then as a hog is except that before a storme , hee tumbles just as a hog runs . That which I ...
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... hath no teeth , but is conceived to live upon dew ; and the possibility of its subsistence is disputed by Licetus . Hereof I perceive Muffetus hath taken notice , dissenting from Langius and Lycosthenes , while they deliver the cicade ...
... hath no teeth , but is conceived to live upon dew ; and the possibility of its subsistence is disputed by Licetus . Hereof I perceive Muffetus hath taken notice , dissenting from Langius and Lycosthenes , while they deliver the cicade ...
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... hath an angel , as itt were revealing those things to him . St. Marke insists most upon his workes of wonder and miracles , and therefore hathe the lyon of Judah by him . St. Luke is most copious in those storyes which set forthe his ...
... hath an angel , as itt were revealing those things to him . St. Marke insists most upon his workes of wonder and miracles , and therefore hathe the lyon of Judah by him . St. Luke is most copious in those storyes which set forthe his ...
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... hath two teeth , whereby impression , or double puncture behind it . And lastly , we might question the place ; for them unto her breast , which notwithstanding w sist with the history , and Petrus Victorius hath w the same . But herein ...
... hath two teeth , whereby impression , or double puncture behind it . And lastly , we might question the place ; for them unto her breast , which notwithstanding w sist with the history , and Petrus Victorius hath w the same . But herein ...
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... hath observed in these words : Acta S. Christopheri à multis depravata inve- niuntur : quod quidem non aliunde originem sumpsisse cer- tum est , quàm quòd symbolicas figuras imperiti ad veritatem successu temporis transtulerint : itaque ...
... hath observed in these words : Acta S. Christopheri à multis depravata inve- niuntur : quod quidem non aliunde originem sumpsisse cer- tum est , quàm quòd symbolicas figuras imperiti ad veritatem successu temporis transtulerint : itaque ...
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Page 25 - 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 219 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 429 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind; Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.
Page 236 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 126 - I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil.
Page 113 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 27 - 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 23 - Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to...