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... called Orphica are ascribed to Onomacritus , who lived about five hundred years before the Christian era ; and it is certain that they were current at that period . They are often quoted by Plato . The extant poems consist of the ...
... called Orphica are ascribed to Onomacritus , who lived about five hundred years before the Christian era ; and it is certain that they were current at that period . They are often quoted by Plato . The extant poems consist of the ...
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... called in Africa the Jaculus , wreathes itself , and then darts forth . " - LUCAN . Phars . 1. Ix . v . 822 . " The Basilisk is produced in the province of Cyrene , being not more than 12 fingers in length . It has a white spot on the ...
... called in Africa the Jaculus , wreathes itself , and then darts forth . " - LUCAN . Phars . 1. Ix . v . 822 . " The Basilisk is produced in the province of Cyrene , being not more than 12 fingers in length . It has a white spot on the ...
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... called ' Ancient Hellas . ' This is the country which lies about Dodona and upon the river Achelous . ” — ARISTOT . Meteorol . 1. 1. c . 14 . Among ancient mariners the dove was thought to be particularly auspicious . The most ...
... called ' Ancient Hellas . ' This is the country which lies about Dodona and upon the river Achelous . ” — ARISTOT . Meteorol . 1. 1. c . 14 . Among ancient mariners the dove was thought to be particularly auspicious . The most ...
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... called by that name . ” — HDT . 1. 11. c . 42 . " Chemmis is a place of considerable note in the Thebaid . " - IBID . c . 91 . " The priests of Egypt , in the mysteries of Isis , call their country Chemia . " PLUT . de Isid , et Osirid ...
... called by that name . ” — HDT . 1. 11. c . 42 . " Chemmis is a place of considerable note in the Thebaid . " - IBID . c . 91 . " The priests of Egypt , in the mysteries of Isis , call their country Chemia . " PLUT . de Isid , et Osirid ...
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... called Is ; near which flows a river of the same name , which empties itself into the Euphrates . With the current of this river particles of bitumen descend towards Babylon , by means of which its walls were constructed . " - HDT . 1 ...
... called Is ; near which flows a river of the same name , which empties itself into the Euphrates . With the current of this river particles of bitumen descend towards Babylon , by means of which its walls were constructed . " - HDT . 1 ...
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Page 113 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 169 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee ; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 46 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 50 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 569 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 32 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 45 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 23 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 603 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 505 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?