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Page 43
... Solinus in a manner transcribed 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 ...
... Solinus in a manner transcribed 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 ...
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... Solinus , who lived also about his time . He left a work entitled Polyhistor , containing great variety of matter , and is with most in good request at this day . But to speak freely what cannot be concealed , it is but Pliny varied ...
... Solinus , who lived also about his time . He left a work entitled Polyhistor , containing great variety of matter , and is with most in good request at this day . But to speak freely what cannot be concealed , it is but Pliny varied ...
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... Solinus , who transcribed Pliny , and , there- fore , in almost all subscribed unto him , hath in this point dissented from him . Putant quidam glaciem coire , et in crystallum corporari , sed frustra . Matthiolus , in his com- ment ...
... Solinus , who transcribed Pliny , and , there- fore , in almost all subscribed unto him , hath in this point dissented from him . Putant quidam glaciem coire , et in crystallum corporari , sed frustra . Matthiolus , in his com- ment ...
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... Solinus , Ptolemy , Plutarch , Al- bertus , Matthiolus , Rueus , Langius , and many more . An effect as strange as that of Homer's Moly , and the garlick that Mercury bestowed upon Ulysses . But that it is evidently false , many ...
... Solinus , Ptolemy , Plutarch , Al- bertus , Matthiolus , Rueus , Langius , and many more . An effect as strange as that of Homer's Moly , and the garlick that Mercury bestowed upon Ulysses . But that it is evidently false , many ...
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... Solinus , Albertus , Cyprian , Austin , Isidore , and many christian writers : allud- ing herein unto the heart of man , and the precious blood of our Saviour , who was typified by the goat that was slain , and the scapegoat in the ...
... Solinus , Albertus , Cyprian , Austin , Isidore , and many christian writers : allud- ing herein unto the heart of man , and the precious blood of our Saviour , who was typified by the goat that was slain , and the scapegoat in the ...
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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.