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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The heathen writers concur in testifying that the deserts wherein the Israelites
journeyed produced serpents of so venomous a kind , that their biting was deadly
, beyond the power of any art then known to cure it 51. The ancients observed in
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The heathen writers concur in testifying that the deserts wherein the Israelites
journeyed produced serpents of so venomous a kind , that their biting was deadly
, beyond the power of any art then known to cure it 51. The ancients observed in
...
Page 381
This curious natural fact reconciles the statement of the sacred writer with the
truth of natural history . If by any means the egg of the viper be separated from the
body , the phenomenon which the prophet mentions may certainly , take place 34
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This curious natural fact reconciles the statement of the sacred writer with the
truth of natural history . If by any means the egg of the viper be separated from the
body , the phenomenon which the prophet mentions may certainly , take place 34
...
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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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