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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THERE are few things more difficult to be determined with any degree of certainty
and precision , than those which refer to the natural history of the world in t ?
arlier ages ; for we have no ancient history of nature wnich describes animals ...
THERE are few things more difficult to be determined with any degree of certainty
and precision , than those which refer to the natural history of the world in t ?
arlier ages ; for we have no ancient history of nature wnich describes animals ...
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The other reason was , that their properties and natures seemed to lay a
prejudice in the way of some of these , and to render them , as it were , a sort of
profanation . Some were monstrously big , others very ugly , others fed upon
dead bodies ...
The other reason was , that their properties and natures seemed to lay a
prejudice in the way of some of these , and to render them , as it were , a sort of
profanation . Some were monstrously big , others very ugly , others fed upon
dead bodies ...
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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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