Observations on Various Passages of Scripture: Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... planting flowers and odo- riferous herbs or shrubs , on or about their Kings xxiii . 16 , compared with 1 Kings xiii . 2 . " Isaiah xxii . 15-17 . 警 their graves : Clods like those of a valley 106 Of honouring the Dead .
... planting flowers and odo- riferous herbs or shrubs , on or about their Kings xxiii . 16 , compared with 1 Kings xiii . 2 . " Isaiah xxii . 15-17 . 警 their graves : Clods like those of a valley 106 Of honouring the Dead .
Page 108
... plant such kind of flowers as endure green all the year long ; which seem to grow out of the dead body , thinking thereby to reduce it again into play , though not in the scene of sensible creatures , yet of those vegetables , which is ...
... plant such kind of flowers as endure green all the year long ; which seem to grow out of the dead body , thinking thereby to reduce it again into play , though not in the scene of sensible creatures , yet of those vegetables , which is ...
Page 110
... plants made use of now in the East for this purpose , and , if there be , what those differences are . A speculation of some curiosity , and what must be amusing . What the plants are that are used by the Barbary Jews , Dr. Addison has ...
... plants made use of now in the East for this purpose , and , if there be , what those differences are . A speculation of some curiosity , and what must be amusing . What the plants are that are used by the Barbary Jews , Dr. Addison has ...
Page 111
... plants for this pur- pose in Egypt , he has neglected to mention them . d Whether these precisely were the vegetables made use of by Augustus , when he viewed the remains of Alexander the Great in Egypt , Suetonius has not informed us ...
... plants for this pur- pose in Egypt , he has neglected to mention them . d Whether these precisely were the vegetables made use of by Augustus , when he viewed the remains of Alexander the Great in Egypt , Suetonius has not informed us ...
Page 112
... plants are made use of in Egypt to adorn the sepulchres of their friends ; but not all indiscriminately , for ... plant should be used , as a token of their escape from death in this dangerous journey , and at the same time laid ...
... plants are made use of in Egypt to adorn the sepulchres of their friends ; but not all indiscriminately , for ... plant should be used , as a token of their escape from death in this dangerous journey , and at the same time laid ...
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Popular passages
Page 109 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 231 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 447 - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
Page 93 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 509 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert; and be healed.
Page 59 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 243 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 567 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood ; and that there may be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Page 37 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Page 82 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.