An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. I. The First Exhibits a General View of Serpents, in Their Various Aspects...The Second Gives a View of Most Serpents Known in the Several Parts of the World... III. To which is Added a Third Part; Containing Six Dissertations Upon the Following Articles. 1. Upon the Primeval Serpent in Paradise. 2. The Fiery Serpents that Infested the Camp of Israel. 3. The Brazen Serpent Erected by Moses. 4. The Divine Worship Given to Serpents by the Nations. 5. The Origin and Reason of that Monstrous Worship. 6. Upon the Adoration of Different Kinds of Beasts by the Egyptians ... The Whole Intermix'd with Variety of Entertaining Digressions, Philosophical and Historical, ส่วนที่ 3author, 1742 - 240 หน้า |
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หน้า 171 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
หน้า 44 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
หน้า 187 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for there is no bread, neither is there any water ; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
หน้า 80 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
หน้า 29 - ... he immediately felt a violent pain, both at the top of his thumb, and up his arm, even before the viper was loosened from his hand ; soon after he felt a pain resembling that of burning, trickle up his arm ; in a few minutes his eyes began to look red and fiery, and to water much ; in less than...
หน้า 187 - He commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, And rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels' food : he sent them meat to the full.
หน้า 9 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse heels, So that his rider shall fall backward.
หน้า 73 - THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think Should have but little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup.
หน้า 74 - Drinks up the sea, and when he's done, The moon and stars drink up the sun. They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night. Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal health goes round. Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high, Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I : Why, man of morals, tell me why 1 BEAUTY.
หน้า 29 - Blood came off the Wounds : He faid, that he immediately felt a violent Pain and Shooting from the Wounds, both to the Top of his Thumb, and up his Arm, even before the Viper was loofened from his Hand : Soon after he felt a Pain, refembling that of Burning, trickle up his Arm...