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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... gold . Ezek . xxvii . 22 . The translators of the Bible have in Isa . liv . 12. and Ezek . xxvii . 16 , given the same word to quite a different stone . The original is 77 , which , as in the former place it is proposed for windows , I ...
... gold . Ezek . xxvii . 22 . The translators of the Bible have in Isa . liv . 12. and Ezek . xxvii . 16 , given the same word to quite a different stone . The original is 77 , which , as in the former place it is proposed for windows , I ...
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... gold itself . It is used for perfuming habits and apartments , and is administered as a cordial in fainting and epileptic fits 29. These pieces , called calunbac , are carefully preserved in pewter boxes , to prevent their drying . When ...
... gold itself . It is used for perfuming habits and apartments , and is administered as a cordial in fainting and epileptic fits 29. These pieces , called calunbac , are carefully preserved in pewter boxes , to prevent their drying . When ...
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... ( gold as it comes from the mine ) ; and so denote either a metal mixed of copper and gold , as the as pyropum mentioned in the ancient Greek and Roman writers , and thus called from its fiery colour ; and the noted as corinthum , or else ...
... ( gold as it comes from the mine ) ; and so denote either a metal mixed of copper and gold , as the as pyropum mentioned in the ancient Greek and Roman writers , and thus called from its fiery colour ; and the noted as corinthum , or else ...
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... gold and sparkling gems they shine , But Apes and Monkeys are the gods within 45 " 40 A drawing of this most curious relique of antiquity may be seen in Shaw's Travels , p . 423 , with a learned explanation ; and a history of it is ...
... gold and sparkling gems they shine , But Apes and Monkeys are the gods within 45 " 40 A drawing of this most curious relique of antiquity may be seen in Shaw's Travels , p . 423 , with a learned explanation ; and a history of it is ...
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... gold , Prov . xxv . 11 ; extremely fragrant , Cantic . vii . 8 : and proper for those to smell that were ready to faint , Cantic . ii . 5. The fifth passage , Cantic . viii . 5. contains nothing particular ; but the description which ...
... gold , Prov . xxv . 11 ; extremely fragrant , Cantic . vii . 8 : and proper for those to smell that were ready to faint , Cantic . ii . 5. The fifth passage , Cantic . viii . 5. contains nothing particular ; but the description which ...
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