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... hath left so much in silence , or time hath so martyred the records , that the most industrious heads * do find no easy work to erect a new Britannia . ' Tis opportune to look back upon old times , and contem- plate our forefathers ...
... hath left so much in silence , or time hath so martyred the records , that the most industrious heads * do find no easy work to erect a new Britannia . ' Tis opportune to look back upon old times , and contem- plate our forefathers ...
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... hath furnished one part of the earth , and man another . The treasures of time lie high , in urns , coins , and monu- ments , scarce below the roots of some vegetables . Time hath endless rarities ... hath engrossed the name , yet water hath.
... hath furnished one part of the earth , and man another . The treasures of time lie high , in urns , coins , and monu- ments , scarce below the roots of some vegetables . Time hath endless rarities ... hath engrossed the name , yet water hath.
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sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Though earth hath engrossed the name , yet water hath proved the smartest grave ; which in forty days swallowed almost mankind , and the living creation ; fishes not wholly escaping , except the salt ocean ...
sir Thomas Browne Simon Wilkin. Though earth hath engrossed the name , yet water hath proved the smartest grave ; which in forty days swallowed almost mankind , and the living creation ; fishes not wholly escaping , except the salt ocean ...
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... hath prompted , no age hath wanted such miners . For which the most barbarous expilators found the most civil rhetorick . Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it ; what was unreasonably committed to the ground , is reasonably ...
... hath prompted , no age hath wanted such miners . For which the most barbarous expilators found the most civil rhetorick . Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it ; what was unreasonably committed to the ground , is reasonably ...
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... hath the ashes of his friend , hath an everlasting treasure ; where fire taketh leave , corruption slowly enters . In bones well burnt , fire makes a wall against itself ; experimented in cupels , 5 and tests of metals , which consist ...
... hath the ashes of his friend , hath an everlasting treasure ; where fire taketh leave , corruption slowly enters . In bones well burnt , fire makes a wall against itself ; experimented in cupels , 5 and tests of metals , which consist ...
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Page 178 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 172 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 152 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 549 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Page 45 - 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 43 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and shut up all There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 45 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 48 - 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...
Page 42 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism ; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 549 - In 2 vols. • - ; or, with the plates coloured, 7*. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day in the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann.