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... Remarkable Epitaphs . By T. J. PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. Early Travels in Palestine . Willi- bald , Sawulf , Benjamin of Tudela , Man- deville , La Brocquiere , and Maundrell ; all unabridged . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Ellis's Early ...
... Remarkable Epitaphs . By T. J. PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. Early Travels in Palestine . Willi- bald , Sawulf , Benjamin of Tudela , Man- deville , La Brocquiere , and Maundrell ; all unabridged . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Ellis's Early ...
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... remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and after having passed through the classes of the school at Norwich , became bachelor of physick at Cambridge ; and ...
... remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and after having passed through the classes of the school at Norwich , became bachelor of physick at Cambridge ; and ...
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... remarkable instances in his Religio Medici , of which I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter . " I ever esteemed it a special favour of Divine Providence to have had a more particular acquaintance with this excellent person , for ...
... remarkable instances in his Religio Medici , of which I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter . " I ever esteemed it a special favour of Divine Providence to have had a more particular acquaintance with this excellent person , for ...
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... remarkable in any book that he had read ; and not only knew all persons again that he had ever seen at any distance of time , but remembered the circumstances of their bodies , and their particular discourses and speeches . " In the ...
... remarkable in any book that he had read ; and not only knew all persons again that he had ever seen at any distance of time , but remembered the circumstances of their bodies , and their particular discourses and speeches . " In the ...
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... remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles , of which the following is given as a close translation . ' By a species of sagacity peculiarly his own , for which he was in no degree indebted either to ...
... remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles , of which the following is given as a close translation . ' By a species of sagacity peculiarly his own , for which he was in no degree indebted either to ...
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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.