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... CHAPTER I. Of the Picture of the Pelican . AND first , in every place we meet with the picture of the pelican , opening her breast with her bill , and feeding her young ones with the blood distilled from her . Thus is it set forth not ...
... CHAPTER I. Of the Picture of the Pelican . AND first , in every place we meet with the picture of the pelican , opening her breast with her bill , and feeding her young ones with the blood distilled from her . Thus is it set forth not ...
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... CHAPTER II . Of the Picture of Dolphins . THAT dolphins are crooked , is not only affirmed by the hand of the painter , but commonly conceived their natural and proper figure , which is not only the opinion of our times , but seems the ...
... CHAPTER II . Of the Picture of Dolphins . THAT dolphins are crooked , is not only affirmed by the hand of the painter , but commonly conceived their natural and proper figure , which is not only the opinion of our times , but seems the ...
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... CHAPTER III . Of the Picture of a Grasshopper . THERE is also among us a common description and picture of a grasshopper , as may be observed in the pictures of emblematists , in the coats of several families , and as the word cicada is ...
... CHAPTER III . Of the Picture of a Grasshopper . THERE is also among us a common description and picture of a grasshopper , as may be observed in the pictures of emblematists , in the coats of several families , and as the word cicada is ...
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... CHAPTER IV . Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve . In the picture of paradise , and delusion of our first parents , the serpent is often described with human visage , not unlike unto Cadmus or his wife in the act of their ...
... CHAPTER IV . Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve . In the picture of paradise , and delusion of our first parents , the serpent is often described with human visage , not unlike unto Cadmus or his wife in the act of their ...
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... CHAPTER V. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels . ANOTHER mistake there may be in the picture of parents , who after the manner of their posterity & delineated with a navel ; and this is observable not ordinary and stained pieces ...
... CHAPTER V. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels . ANOTHER mistake there may be in the picture of parents , who after the manner of their posterity & delineated with a navel ; and this is observable not ordinary and stained pieces ...
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Página 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.
Página 219 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 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.
Página 236 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...