The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
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... with freedom , such materials as I could find , after having deliberately
considered and impartially collated their accounts ; that , in appropriating such
information as was to be collected from those writers , I have not scrupled to use
their own ...
... with freedom , such materials as I could find , after having deliberately
considered and impartially collated their accounts ; that , in appropriating such
information as was to be collected from those writers , I have not scrupled to use
their own ...
Page 13
It may be thought sufficient for the purpose if it were in Solomon's time but a
popular notion . The Scriptures are not to be considered as unerring guides in
NATURAL , although they are in MORAL and Divine matters 39 . The following
remarks ...
It may be thought sufficient for the purpose if it were in Solomon's time but a
popular notion . The Scriptures are not to be considered as unerring guides in
NATURAL , although they are in MORAL and Divine matters 39 . The following
remarks ...
Page 53
The wild boar is considered as the parent stock of our domestic hog . He is much
smaller , but at the same time stronger and more undaunted . In his own defence ,
he will turn on men or dogs ; and scarcely shuns any denizen of the forests , in ...
The wild boar is considered as the parent stock of our domestic hog . He is much
smaller , but at the same time stronger and more undaunted . In his own defence ,
he will turn on men or dogs ; and scarcely shuns any denizen of the forests , in ...
Page 69
... henna , or alkanna 78. ” This shrub had at first been considered as a species of
privet , to which it has , indeed , many relations ; but difference in the parts of
fructification have determined botanists to make a distinct genus of it , to which ...
... henna , or alkanna 78. ” This shrub had at first been considered as a species of
privet , to which it has , indeed , many relations ; but difference in the parts of
fructification have determined botanists to make a distinct genus of it , to which ...
Page 92
hun The principal objection to adopting this bird is , that the SACAPH was
prohibited as unclean , and it cannot be supposed that the saf - saf , a
granivorous bird , should be so considered ; besides the sacaph is placed in the
text among birds ...
hun The principal objection to adopting this bird is , that the SACAPH was
prohibited as unclean , and it cannot be supposed that the saf - saf , a
granivorous bird , should be so considered ; besides the sacaph is placed in the
text among birds ...
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| Title | The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
| Author | Thaddeus Mason Harris |
| Contributor | Chiswick Press |
| Publisher | T. Teggy, 1824 |
| Original from | Montserrat Abbey Library |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2011 |
| Length | 430 pages |
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