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... ground hereof I confess we may allow , nor need we deny a remarkable affection in pelicans toward their young ; for Elian , discoursing of storks , and their affection toward their brood , whom they instruct to fly , and unto whom they ...
... ground hereof I confess we may allow , nor need we deny a remarkable affection in pelicans toward their young ; for Elian , discoursing of storks , and their affection toward their brood , whom they instruct to fly , and unto whom they ...
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... ground ; but emblematically , according as Pierius hath expressed it , the swiftest animal conjoined with that heavy body , implying that common moral , festina lentè : and that celerity should always be contempered with cunctation ...
... ground ; but emblematically , according as Pierius hath expressed it , the swiftest animal conjoined with that heavy body , implying that common moral , festina lentè : and that celerity should always be contempered with cunctation ...
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... ground are like other ser- pents or eeles ( like conger eeles ) , but raising themselves upright they spread themselves into such a corpulent breadthe , that had they feet they would seeme to be men , and therefore he cals them by a ...
... ground are like other ser- pents or eeles ( like conger eeles ) , but raising themselves upright they spread themselves into such a corpulent breadthe , that had they feet they would seeme to be men , and therefore he cals them by a ...
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... ground , do indicate his condemnation to subsequent reptility . Some critics have complained of the painters for representing him without feet in his interview with Eve , whereas , say they , his creeping on his belly was inflicted on ...
... ground , do indicate his condemnation to subsequent reptility . Some critics have complained of the painters for representing him without feet in his interview with Eve , whereas , say they , his creeping on his belly was inflicted on ...
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... ground of this absurdity was surely a mistake of the Hebrew text , in the history of Moses when he descended from the mount , upon the affinity of kæren and karan , that is , an horn , and to shine , which is one quality of horn . The ...
... ground of this absurdity was surely a mistake of the Hebrew text , in the history of Moses when he descended from the mount , upon the affinity of kæren and karan , that is , an horn , and to shine , which is one quality of horn . The ...
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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...