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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... leaves . The flowers are like those of the acacia , small and white , only that three hang upon three filaments , or stalks , where the acacia has but one . Two of these flowers fall off , and leave a single fruit ; the branches that ...
... leaves . The flowers are like those of the acacia , small and white , only that three hang upon three filaments , or stalks , where the acacia has but one . Two of these flowers fall off , and leave a single fruit ; the branches that ...
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... leaves of hope ; To - morrow blossoms , And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; 1 De Significationibus Plantarum , Florum , et Fructuum , quæ in Scripturis memorantur , p . 274 . The third day comes a frost , a killing frost 36 ...
... leaves of hope ; To - morrow blossoms , And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; 1 De Significationibus Plantarum , Florum , et Fructuum , quæ in Scripturis memorantur , p . 274 . The third day comes a frost , a killing frost 36 ...
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... leaves the waters , and commits wide devastations through all the culti- vated fields adjacent to the river . Unless when accidentally provoked , or wounded , he is never offensive ; but when he is assaulted or hurt , his fury against ...
... leaves the waters , and commits wide devastations through all the culti- vated fields adjacent to the river . Unless when accidentally provoked , or wounded , he is never offensive ; but when he is assaulted or hurt , his fury against ...
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... leaf ; and ground it very small , even until it was as small as dust , which might be very easily done by the action of the hands when beat into thin plates or leaves , as the original word ecoth , and pr dak , im- ply . And I cast the ...
... leaf ; and ground it very small , even until it was as small as dust , which might be very easily done by the action of the hands when beat into thin plates or leaves , as the original word ecoth , and pr dak , im- ply . And I cast the ...
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... leaves , they give an orange tincture to their nails , to the inside of their hands , and to the soles of their feet . The expression INDY NN NNWY rendered " pare her nails , " Deut . xxi . 12 , may perhaps rather mean , “ adorn her ...
... leaves , they give an orange tincture to their nails , to the inside of their hands , and to the soles of their feet . The expression INDY NN NNWY rendered " pare her nails , " Deut . xxi . 12 , may perhaps rather mean , “ adorn her ...
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Page 363 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Page 204 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 295 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 251 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 395 - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold — Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To Heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows.
Page 110 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 362 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a, man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Page 152 - Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
Page 153 - But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines : for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
Page 16 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.