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Page xviii
... confirmed by later observations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name ... confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt . : " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can ...
... confirmed by later observations . The reputation of Browne encouraged some low writer to publish , under his name ... confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt . : " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can ...
Page xxxi
... confirmed and enlarged , by many passages in the Religio Medici ; in which it appears , from Whitefoot's testimony , that the author , though no very sparing panegyrist of himself , has not exceeded the truth , with respect to his ...
... confirmed and enlarged , by many passages in the Religio Medici ; in which it appears , from Whitefoot's testimony , that the author , though no very sparing panegyrist of himself , has not exceeded the truth , with respect to his ...
Page xxxv
... confirmed judgment seen and examined all , he finds himself obliged , by the principles of grace , and the law of his own reason , to embrace no other name but this : " who , to specify his persuasion yet more , tells us , that " he is ...
... confirmed judgment seen and examined all , he finds himself obliged , by the principles of grace , and the law of his own reason , to embrace no other name but this : " who , to specify his persuasion yet more , tells us , that " he is ...
Page lxv
... confirmed it hand and seale . THOMAS BROWNE . with my Nicho : Bickerdike Witnesses & Anthony Mingay Aug. Briggs , Junior . Of the two daughters named in this will , only one ( Frances ) remained single at the time of his death . Whether ...
... confirmed it hand and seale . THOMAS BROWNE . with my Nicho : Bickerdike Witnesses & Anthony Mingay Aug. Briggs , Junior . Of the two daughters named in this will , only one ( Frances ) remained single at the time of his death . Whether ...
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... confirmed by the inquiries of Champollion . The Egyptians embalmed and preserved all the animals they adored ; and in the Royal Egyptian Museum at Berlin are some mummies of the sacred beetle . In these instances of the worship of ...
... confirmed by the inquiries of Champollion . The Egyptians embalmed and preserved all the animals they adored ; and in the Royal Egyptian Museum at Berlin are some mummies of the sacred beetle . In these instances of the worship 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.