Stray Leaves of Science and Folk-loreTinsley Bros., 1870 - 485 halaman |
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Halaman 464 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all ; for, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Halaman 452 - Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse; Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man ; Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer ; Thrice the age of a deer is that of an eagle ; Thrice the age of an eagle is that of an oak tree.
Halaman 475 - I take knowledge, these are at the bottom of the outcry which has been raised, and with such insolence spread throughout the nation, in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and the best of men in all ages and nations.
Halaman 475 - It is true likewise, that the English in general, and indeed most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives
Halaman 469 - Pacy, their father, is described as ' a man who carried himself with much soberness during the trial, from whom proceeded no words either of passion or malice, though his children were so greatly afflicted.
Halaman 31 - He did not love, he did not hate, he did not hope, he did not fear, he did not worship as others do.
Halaman 120 - But the scientific world had no faith in the statement that works of art, however rude, had been met with in undisturbed beds of such antiquity.
Halaman 454 - John the fool, with a high and mighty no beard, that had also a horse for his carriage. These all were to be brought out of the country to London, by easy...
Halaman 31 - I realise in reading his memorials. His brain seems to have been but a calculating engine ; his eyes inlets of vision, not fountains of tears ; his hands instruments of manipulation which never trembled with emotion, or were clasped together in adoration thanksgiving, or despair ; his heart only an anatomical organ, necessary for of the circulation of the blood.
Halaman 129 - ... habit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tumbling in the air head over heels. The runt is a bird of great size, with long, massive beak and large feet ; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a long beak, has a very short and broad one.