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Page 19 - Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Page 18 - O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit : so wilt Thou recover me, and make me to live.
Page 17 - To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run : How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 19 - And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken...
Page 95 - Coles, William: Adam in Eden: or, Natures Paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers. — London, 1657.
Page 96 - Elizabeth. A Curious herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.
Page 91 - This darling flower, this early child of spring, " that comes before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty,
Page 97 - Strictly speaking, as the reader must be aware, the mandrake will only grow under a gallows-tree, for it finds its most sustaining nutriment in the juices that drip and drip from the bodies of decayed murderers. Its fat, fleshlike root is said to be shaped like a man, but in this particular Perdita has been disappointed, as, indeed, Gerarde was before her. "I myselfe and my servannts also have digged up, planted and replanted verie many; and yet never could either perceive shape of man and woman...
Page 93 - Mars be in the mid heaven, for in those houses they delight; let the Moon apply to them by good aspect, and let her not be in the houses of her enemies; if you cannot well stay till she apply to them, let her apply to a planet of the same triplicity...
Page 47 - PERHAPS no word of six letters concentrates so much human satisfaction as the word "garden." Not accidentally, indeed, did the inspired writer make Paradise a garden; and still to-day, when a man has found all the rest of the world vanity, he retires into his garden. When man needs just one word to express in rich and poignant symbol his sense of accumulated beauty and blessedness, his first thought is of a garden. The saint speaks of "The Garden of God." "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse,"...