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... Pliny . Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies , their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incan- tations . For , according unto the tradition of magicians , the tutelary spirits will not ...
... Pliny . Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies , their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incan- tations . For , according unto the tradition of magicians , the tutelary spirits will not ...
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... Pliny , Ælian , Athe- næus , and many more . Not a few transcriptively , sub- scribing their names unto other men's endeavours , and merely transcribing almost all they have written . Arabs transcribing the Greeks , the Greeks and ...
... Pliny , Ælian , Athe- næus , and many more . Not a few transcriptively , sub- scribing their names unto other men's endeavours , and merely transcribing almost all they have written . Arabs transcribing the Greeks , the Greeks and ...
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... Pliny . Thus have Lucian and Apuleius served Lucius Pratensis ; men both living in the same time , and both transcribing the same author , in those famous books , entituled Lucius by the one , and Aureus Asinus by the other . In the ...
... Pliny . Thus have Lucian and Apuleius served Lucius Pratensis ; men both living in the same time , and both transcribing the same author , in those famous books , entituled Lucius by the one , and Aureus Asinus by the other . In the ...
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... Pliny , who seems to borrow many authors out of Dioscorides , hath taken no notice of him . I wish men were not still content to plume themselves with others ' feathers . Fear of discovery , not single ingenuity , affords quotations ...
... Pliny , who seems to borrow many authors out of Dioscorides , hath taken no notice of him . I wish men were not still content to plume themselves with others ' feathers . Fear of discovery , not single ingenuity , affords quotations ...
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... Pliny . " ( Medical Jurisprudence , vol . i . p . 247 . ) - By the law of Scotland , as stated by Paris and Fon- blanque , a child born ten months after the death of the father is con- sidered as legitimate ; and the civil code of ...
... Pliny . " ( Medical Jurisprudence , vol . i . p . 247 . ) - By the law of Scotland , as stated by Paris and Fon- blanque , a child born ten months after the death of the father is con- sidered as legitimate ; and the civil code of ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.