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Page 98
... dance to take a view of it ; but when they were come within a day's journey of the place , they were all destroyed by a terrible noise from heaven . " They say Pharaoh used to tie those he had a mind to punish , by the hands and feet to ...
... dance to take a view of it ; but when they were come within a day's journey of the place , they were all destroyed by a terrible noise from heaven . " They say Pharaoh used to tie those he had a mind to punish , by the hands and feet to ...
Page 107
... dance over the plain , and the sultry mist clothes the parched hills . " 62. " On many a cold morning , when the freezing winds howl , and the hand of the North holds their reins , I turn aside their blast from the travellers whom I ...
... dance over the plain , and the sultry mist clothes the parched hills . " 62. " On many a cold morning , when the freezing winds howl , and the hand of the North holds their reins , I turn aside their blast from the travellers whom I ...
Page 117
... dance and one hench man , their officers in jackets of woosted , or sea party- coloured differing from the maiors and each from other , but having harnessed men a great many , & c . " BESIDES the standing watches , all in bright harness ...
... dance and one hench man , their officers in jackets of woosted , or sea party- coloured differing from the maiors and each from other , but having harnessed men a great many , & c . " BESIDES the standing watches , all in bright harness ...
Page 119
... dance as long as they can well see . In winter , every holy- day , before dinner , the boars prepared for brawn are set to fight , or else bulls or bears are baited . " - Ibid . Whittington's Epitaph , St. Michaels , Ventrie Ward . " Ur ...
... dance as long as they can well see . In winter , every holy- day , before dinner , the boars prepared for brawn are set to fight , or else bulls or bears are baited . " - Ibid . Whittington's Epitaph , St. Michaels , Ventrie Ward . " Ur ...
Page 138
... Dance . " ANNO gratić 1012 : Cum in villâ quâ- dam Saxonić nomen Colewiz , in quâ est Ecclesia beati Magni martyris , in vigilia dominicć nativitatis parochia convenisset , ut obsequiis interesset divinis , presbyter nomine Robertus ...
... Dance . " ANNO gratić 1012 : Cum in villâ quâ- dam Saxonić nomen Colewiz , in quâ est Ecclesia beati Magni martyris , in vigilia dominicć nativitatis parochia convenisset , ut obsequiis interesset divinis , presbyter nomine Robertus ...
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Page 148 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 494 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 480 - Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: 37: And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein...
Page 717 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 217 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Page 64 - Righteous (art) thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of (thy) judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? (Wherefore) are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Page 493 - The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 683 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.