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... himself to give any particular description of them , as he does almost of every thing else , and yet the Jewish artificers made them right . " - Remnants of Time , xix . B of gold for the mitre of the high - priest 3.
... himself to give any particular description of them , as he does almost of every thing else , and yet the Jewish artificers made them right . " - Remnants of Time , xix . B of gold for the mitre of the high - priest 3.
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... thing that has fitted and adhered . It is the blending of the literal and the figurative meanings together , ( which ... things ; that is to say , between the light of morning beaming on , and passing round , a darkened world , and ...
... thing that has fitted and adhered . It is the blending of the literal and the figurative meanings together , ( which ... things ; that is to say , between the light of morning beaming on , and passing round , a darkened world , and ...
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... thing , for throughout the Hebrew Scriptures , the word nn ( Chetham or Ghotham ) is employed to express both the signet and the impression from it ; and the reader is left to collect which is meant , from the context , and from ...
... thing , for throughout the Hebrew Scriptures , the word nn ( Chetham or Ghotham ) is employed to express both the signet and the impression from it ; and the reader is left to collect which is meant , from the context , and from ...
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... things are the accredited signs of those things ; nor of that other branch of the meaning of Shem , which the English word Notoriety would best express : but more recon- ditely , of mystic signs , prophetic of the future , or ...
... things are the accredited signs of those things ; nor of that other branch of the meaning of Shem , which the English word Notoriety would best express : but more recon- ditely , of mystic signs , prophetic of the future , or ...
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... thing to come , " which is , if possible , still more pointedly to my present purpose , though I conceive the word also to have occasional reference to that which is past . Ath , * or Sign , then , primarily meant , and still means ...
... thing to come , " which is , if possible , still more pointedly to my present purpose , though I conceive the word also to have occasional reference to that which is past . Ath , * or Sign , then , primarily meant , and still means ...
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Page 78 - Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Page 13 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Page 54 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 52 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Page 36 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 319 - And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Page 308 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven : and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
Page 69 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God...
Page x - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.