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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Page 81
... as Ausonius says , in imitation of the shrill note of a cock . " Hence this writer
concludes , that our Lord did not refer to the crowing of a cock , but to the
sounding of the fourth watch 18. ” Upon this article , my learned friend James
Winthrop ...
... as Ausonius says , in imitation of the shrill note of a cock . " Hence this writer
concludes , that our Lord did not refer to the crowing of a cock , but to the
sounding of the fourth watch 18. ” Upon this article , my learned friend James
Winthrop ...
Page 218
There is in our translation , a strange confusion , writing , printing , and engraving
. Printing is a modern invention , and pens ( from penna , a feather ) , a modern
instrument for writing . An iron feather , quill or pén , must be a great impropriety ...
There is in our translation , a strange confusion , writing , printing , and engraving
. Printing is a modern invention , and pens ( from penna , a feather ) , a modern
instrument for writing . An iron feather , quill or pén , must be a great impropriety ...
Page 219
Lead and brass , and the like , may be supposed not to come into use till
commerce and literature , and the politer arts of life made writing more frequent
and necessary . That lead was of use in the Augustan age , appears from Tacitus
5 , and ...
Lead and brass , and the like , may be supposed not to come into use till
commerce and literature , and the politer arts of life made writing more frequent
and necessary . That lead was of use in the Augustan age , appears from Tacitus
5 , and ...
Page 291
It is frequently the subject from which the sacred writers draw their comparisons
and allegories . In still more distant periods , its flesh seems to have been used
for food , for the legislator of the Jews prohibits it as unclean . It occurs also in ...
It is frequently the subject from which the sacred writers draw their comparisons
and allegories . In still more distant periods , its flesh seems to have been used
for food , for the legislator of the Jews prohibits it as unclean . It occurs also in ...
Page 323
It was used for writing 10 , and hence called “ Calamus Scriptorius , " and
answers to the word in our translation ... In the third book of Maccabees it is
remarked that the writers employed in making a list of the Jews in Egypt
produced their reeds ...
It was used for writing 10 , and hence called “ Calamus Scriptorius , " and
answers to the word in our translation ... In the third book of Maccabees it is
remarked that the writers employed in making a list of the Jews in Egypt
produced their reeds ...
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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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