The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal-Society, Volume 3

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T. Sanders, 1726 - 1056 pages

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Page 767 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side: they four also had the face of an eagle.
Page 767 - The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl : and they four had one likeness : and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Page 735 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 762 - Chrift, who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafliioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to fubdue all things unto him.
Page 944 - And the chief priefts took the filver pieces, and faid, It is not lawful for to put them into the treafury, becaufe it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counfel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury ftrangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood unto this day.
Page 822 - I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 791 - But I fay unto you, That whofoever is angry with his brother without a caufe, fhall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 767 - The fceptre (hall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him (hall the gathering of the people be.
Page 862 - Coaches cou'd scarce get along, And a Parcel of Sheep Driving by, chanc'd to creep Close up to the Wall from the Throng. Full wide were the Grates, Which made the Sun, Gates, To let his light into the Cellar, And down fell a Ram, As Black as old Cham, While Kemple was toying with Keller.
Page 808 - He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

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