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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... perhaps , reading in Latin authors that they wor- shiped heaven , cælum , an ass . " Nil præter nubes et cœli numen adorant , " instead of cœlum , they read cillum , an ass , and so reported that the Jews adored this animal . Something ...
... perhaps , reading in Latin authors that they wor- shiped heaven , cælum , an ass . " Nil præter nubes et cœli numen adorant , " instead of cœlum , they read cillum , an ass , and so reported that the Jews adored this animal . Something ...
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... perhaps a solitary wild ass of the desert ; for the original will bear to be so rendered . This proverbial expression has descended among the Arabians to the present day , who still employ , as Schultens has remarked , the expressions ...
... perhaps a solitary wild ass of the desert ; for the original will bear to be so rendered . This proverbial expression has descended among the Arabians to the present day , who still employ , as Schultens has remarked , the expressions ...
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... perhaps refer to different races though of the same species ; so that a description of the properties of one may apply to both , though not without some variation . Who sent out the PARA free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the ORUD ...
... perhaps refer to different races though of the same species ; so that a description of the properties of one may apply to both , though not without some variation . Who sent out the PARA free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the ORUD ...
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... perhaps that pellucid kind called by Dr. Hill the " ellipomacrostyla , " or beryl crystal . .PENINIM פנינים As there is a gum brought from Arabia and the East Indies , bdellium , some critics have supposed this to be the bedolah of the ...
... perhaps that pellucid kind called by Dr. Hill the " ellipomacrostyla , " or beryl crystal . .PENINIM פנינים As there is a gum brought from Arabia and the East Indies , bdellium , some critics have supposed this to be the bedolah of the ...
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... perhaps , from finding the insect preying upon the pu- trid bodies of dead snakes . Some have supposed it the Gryllus verrucivorus of Linnæus . The Egyptians paid a superstitious worship to the beetle . Blat- ta Egyptiaca , Lin . Mr ...
... perhaps , from finding the insect preying upon the pu- trid bodies of dead snakes . Some have supposed it the Gryllus verrucivorus of Linnæus . The Egyptians paid a superstitious worship to the beetle . Blat- ta Egyptiaca , Lin . Mr ...
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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.