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Page ii
... ground in winter ; of the effects of camphor ; with many others . THE THIRD BOOK ; the particular part continued . received tenets concerning animals . · PAGE 133 157 166 192 210 Of popular and Chap . 1 . That an elephant hath no joints ...
... ground in winter ; of the effects of camphor ; with many others . THE THIRD BOOK ; the particular part continued . received tenets concerning animals . · PAGE 133 157 166 192 210 Of popular and Chap . 1 . That an elephant hath no joints ...
Page xviii
... ground , which threw them into the sea , or which gave them to birds and beasts ; when the practice of cremation began , or when it was disused ; whether the bones of different persons were mingled in the same urn ; what oblations were ...
... ground , which threw them into the sea , or which gave them to birds and beasts ; when the practice of cremation began , or when it was disused ; whether the bones of different persons were mingled in the same urn ; what oblations were ...
Page xix
... ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of Geology - as opposing the statements of Scripture . Frogs of Homer , the Gnat and the Bees of SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xix.
... ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of Geology - as opposing the statements of Scripture . Frogs of Homer , the Gnat and the Bees of SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xix.
Page xxiii
... ground of his belief of their cessation at the coming of Jesus Christ ; -viz . the confession of the devil himself , in his oracle to Augustus . 1722. ] This date was taken from a copy which had a reprint title . The book was published ...
... ground of his belief of their cessation at the coming of Jesus Christ ; -viz . the confession of the devil himself , in his oracle to Augustus . 1722. ] This date was taken from a copy which had a reprint title . The book was published ...
Page xlvii
... ground , is at least eight yards and a half ; about the root , near the earth , sixteen yards ; about half a yard above that , near twelve yards in circuit ; the height , to the uppermost boughs , about thirty yards . This surmounts the ...
... ground , is at least eight yards and a half ; about the root , near the earth , sixteen yards ; about half a yard above that , near twelve yards in circuit ; the height , to the uppermost boughs , about thirty yards . This surmounts 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.