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... whereas it is commonly set forth green or yellow , in its proper colour it is inclining to white , excepting the extremities or tops of the wing feathers , which are brown . It is described in the bigness of a hen , CHAP . I. ] OF THE ...
... whereas it is commonly set forth green or yellow , in its proper colour it is inclining to white , excepting the extremities or tops of the wing feathers , which are brown . It is described in the bigness of a hen , CHAP . I. ] OF THE ...
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... whereas it approacheth and sometimes exceedeth the magni- tude of a swan.2 It is commonly painted with a short bill ; whereas that of the pelican3 attaineth sometimes the length of two spans . The bill is made acute or pointed at the ...
... whereas it approacheth and sometimes exceedeth the magni- tude of a swan.2 It is commonly painted with a short bill ; whereas that of the pelican3 attaineth sometimes the length of two spans . The bill is made acute or pointed at the ...
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... whereas we have declared before the cicada hath no teeth , but is conceived to live upon dew ; and the possibility of its subsistence is disputed by Licetus . Hereof I perceive Muffetus hath taken notice , dissenting from Langius and ...
... whereas we have declared before the cicada hath no teeth , but is conceived to live upon dew ; and the possibility of its subsistence is disputed by Licetus . Hereof I perceive Muffetus hath taken notice , dissenting from Langius and ...
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... whereas other countries have proper expressions for it . So the Italian calls it cicada , the Spaniard cigarra , and the French cigale ; all which appellations conform unto the original , and properly express this animal . Whereas our ...
... whereas other countries have proper expressions for it . So the Italian calls it cicada , the Spaniard cigarra , and the French cigale ; all which appellations conform unto the original , and properly express this animal . Whereas our ...
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... whereas it . is conceived the woman must needs be afraid thereof , and rather fly than approach it , it was not agreeable unto the condition of paradise and state of innocency therein ; if in that place , as most determine , no creature ...
... whereas it . is conceived the woman must needs be afraid thereof , and rather fly than approach it , it was not agreeable unto the condition of paradise and state of innocency therein ; if in that place , as most determine , no creature ...
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Página 25 - 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.
Página 219 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 429 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind; Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.
Página 236 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Página 126 - I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil.
Página 113 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Página 27 - 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.
Página 23 - Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to...