Breviarium chronologicum, being a treatise describing the terms ... us'd in chronology. Done into Engl. with additions [by R. Sault]. Done into Engl. by R. Sault1704 |
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... reckoned Improvements : not to mention that the Prefs has been narrowly ob- ferved , and ' tis hop'd the Reader will here meet with as correct an Edition , as can be expected in a work of this Nature . In regard this Book is recommended ...
... reckoned Improvements : not to mention that the Prefs has been narrowly ob- ferved , and ' tis hop'd the Reader will here meet with as correct an Edition , as can be expected in a work of this Nature . In regard this Book is recommended ...
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... reckon by Days as we do , but by Nights ; and they fo order and appoint things , as if the Night Seemed to uber in the Day . And Cafar writes almoft the fame thing of the Gauls . This Custom the English obferve to this Day in their ...
... reckon by Days as we do , but by Nights ; and they fo order and appoint things , as if the Night Seemed to uber in the Day . And Cafar writes almoft the fame thing of the Gauls . This Custom the English obferve to this Day in their ...
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... reckon Arabians their Month from the first Phafis , being very careful to make the firft Day of the Month come after the Conjunction , left an Eclypfe of the Sun which might then happens fhould pall the joy and mirth that attends the ...
... reckon Arabians their Month from the first Phafis , being very careful to make the firft Day of the Month come after the Conjunction , left an Eclypfe of the Sun which might then happens fhould pall the joy and mirth that attends the ...
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... reckoning the 6to Calendas is called Martii , or the 23 of February , twice over , and ac- Biffextile . counting those two days for one . This is confirmed by Calfus de verb . Sign.l.Cum . Biffextus . And Mar- cellinus 1. 26. brands the ...
... reckoning the 6to Calendas is called Martii , or the 23 of February , twice over , and ac- Biffextile . counting those two days for one . This is confirmed by Calfus de verb . Sign.l.Cum . Biffextus . And Mar- cellinus 1. 26. brands the ...
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... reckon'd twice over ; from whence both the day and the year derived the name of Biffextile . § . 2. The Pompilian ... reckoned back- wards , fo that the Calends being the first day of the Month , and fuppofing it to have four Nones , the ...
... reckon'd twice over ; from whence both the day and the year derived the name of Biffextile . § . 2. The Pompilian ... reckoned back- wards , fo that the Calends being the first day of the Month , and fuppofing it to have four Nones , the ...
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Page 370 - The spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 353 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 209 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 231 - In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif : and in the eleventh year, in the month Bui, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
Page 295 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 266 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 230 - So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. 25. And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, 26.
Page 362 - Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Page 271 - ... thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Page 279 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...