Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 78
Сторінка viii
... whole rivers dry ; that Hannibal cut through the Alps with vinegar ; of Archimedes his burning the ships of Marcellus ; of the Fabii that were all slain ; of the death of schylus ; of the cities of Tarsus and Anthiale built in one day ...
... whole rivers dry ; that Hannibal cut through the Alps with vinegar ; of Archimedes his burning the ships of Marcellus ; of the Fabii that were all slain ; of the death of schylus ; of the cities of Tarsus and Anthiale built in one day ...
Сторінка 7
... whole head with the brains , when Scaliger * objected that the head of a man is the fifteenth part of his body , that of a sparrow scarce the fifth.2 CHAPTER III . That Pleurisies are only on the left side . THAT pleurisies are only on ...
... whole head with the brains , when Scaliger * objected that the head of a man is the fifteenth part of his body , that of a sparrow scarce the fifth.2 CHAPTER III . That Pleurisies are only on the left side . THAT pleurisies are only on ...
Сторінка 14
... whole nations of women ; as is deducible from the Amazons in the amputation of their right breast , whereby they had the freer use of their bow . All which do seem to declare a natural preferment1 of the one unto motion before the other ...
... whole nations of women ; as is deducible from the Amazons in the amputation of their right breast , whereby they had the freer use of their bow . All which do seem to declare a natural preferment1 of the one unto motion before the other ...
Сторінка 21
... whole circularity . And there- fore though it be plausible , it is not of consequence hereto what is delivered by Solinus ; that man was therefore a micro- cosm or little world , because the dimensions of his positions were answerable ...
... whole circularity . And there- fore though it be plausible , it is not of consequence hereto what is delivered by Solinus ; that man was therefore a micro- cosm or little world , because the dimensions of his positions were answerable ...
Сторінка 28
... whole I am inclined to believe the true explanation of the difficulty will be found in this , that the whole substance of the body is pervious to air , and that a considerable portion of it constantly exists in the body during life ...
... whole I am inclined to believe the true explanation of the difficulty will be found in this , that the whole substance of the body is pervious to air , and that a considerable portion of it constantly exists in the body during life ...
Загальні терміни та фрази
2nd edition according unto Adam added in 2nd affirm affirmeth agreeable unto ancient animals antiquity Aristotle authors begat Berosus bodies bones Canaan CHAPTER Christ Christian colour common commonly compute conceived conjecture considerable dayes death decussation delivered discourse divers dog-star doth earth east Egypt Egyptians enquire expression figure flood Garden of Cyrus Greek ground hand hath head heaven Hebrew Herodotus Hippocrates Horapollo hundred Hydriotaphia Japheth Jews Josephus king Lastly latitude lived Mizraim moon Moses motion nature Noah notwithstanding observed omit opinion picture Pierius plants Plato Pliny Plutarch probably quincunx reason received relations rhombus river Roman saith salt Saviour Scaliger Scripture seeds seems septenaries Septuagint serpent seven side Solinus stars story Strabo thereof things tion translation trees tropicks urns Vespasian whence whereas whereby wherein winter word
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 108 - And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
Сторінка 195 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Сторінка 303 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Сторінка 132 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Сторінка 319 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Сторінка 488 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,!
Сторінка 491 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Сторінка 110 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Сторінка 445 - I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer, were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.
Сторінка 494 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...