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Page 500
... rhombus or lozenge figuration , which seemeth very agreeable unto the original figure . Answer- able whereunto we observe the decussated characters in many consulary coins , and even in those of Constantine and his sons , which pretend ...
... rhombus or lozenge figuration , which seemeth very agreeable unto the original figure . Answer- able whereunto we observe the decussated characters in many consulary coins , and even in those of Constantine and his sons , which pretend ...
Page 503
... rhombus , and decussation , with the several commodities , mysteries , parallelisms , and resem- blances , both in art and nature , shall easily discern the elegancy of this order . That this was in some ways of practice in divers and ...
... rhombus , and decussation , with the several commodities , mysteries , parallelisms , and resem- blances , both in art and nature , shall easily discern the elegancy of this order . That this was in some ways of practice in divers and ...
Page 510
... rhombus , and but dif- ferenced by position . The wedge invented to break or work into a body , the forceps to environ and defeat the power thereof , composed out of the selectest soldiery , and disposed into the form of a V , wherein ...
... rhombus , and but dif- ferenced by position . The wedge invented to break or work into a body , the forceps to environ and defeat the power thereof , composed out of the selectest soldiery , and disposed into the form of a V , wherein ...
Page 516
... rhombus in itself . Thus are also disposed the triangular foliations in the conical fruit of the fir tree orderly shadowing and protecting the winged seeds below them . The like so often occurreth to the curiosity of observers ...
... rhombus in itself . Thus are also disposed the triangular foliations in the conical fruit of the fir tree orderly shadowing and protecting the winged seeds below them . The like so often occurreth to the curiosity of observers ...
Page 517
... rhombuses , and net- work figures , as in the sycamore and lilack . The like is discoverable in the original production of plants , which first putting forth two leaves , those which succeed bear not over each other , but shoot ...
... rhombuses , and net- work figures , as in the sycamore and lilack . The like is discoverable in the original production of plants , which first putting forth two leaves , those which succeed bear not over each other , but shoot ...
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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...