The Oedipus Romanus; Or, An Attempt to Prove, from the Principles of Reasoning Adopted by the Rt. Hon. Sir William Drummond, in His Oedipus Judaicus, that the Twelve Caesars are the Signs of the Zodiac ...A.J. Valpy, Sold by Hatchard, 1819 - 147 sider |
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... astronomical emblems . It has repeatedly been made a sub- ject of applause , that our countrymen have ever shown themselves averse to new plans , new systems , and new the- ories , whether in politics or religion . Sir William Drummond ...
... astronomical emblems . It has repeatedly been made a sub- ject of applause , that our countrymen have ever shown themselves averse to new plans , new systems , and new the- ories , whether in politics or religion . Sir William Drummond ...
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... astronomical emblem , as well as a war- rior and a sage ! Joshua , we know , enforced the law of Moses , whom he succeeded : the division of the land of Canaan was completed under the auspices of this chief , and judge of Israel ; and ...
... astronomical emblem , as well as a war- rior and a sage ! Joshua , we know , enforced the law of Moses , whom he succeeded : the division of the land of Canaan was completed under the auspices of this chief , and judge of Israel ; and ...
Side 39
... astronomical signification disco- vered , more suitable to the hypothesis . Let us apply the same mode of reasoning to the exploits of Cæsar , and you will then , Gentlemen , I am persuaded , begin to com- prehend the esoteric doctrines ...
... astronomical signification disco- vered , more suitable to the hypothesis . Let us apply the same mode of reasoning to the exploits of Cæsar , and you will then , Gentlemen , I am persuaded , begin to com- prehend the esoteric doctrines ...
Side 40
... astronomical emblem , I should thus unequivocally represent him , as a bonâ fide , human being . I beg to assure the critic who may make this very natural remark , that he has not thoroughly appre hended the scope and spirit of the ...
... astronomical emblem , I should thus unequivocally represent him , as a bonâ fide , human being . I beg to assure the critic who may make this very natural remark , that he has not thoroughly appre hended the scope and spirit of the ...
Side 46
... astronomical studies . Cæsar did not conquer Germany , though he is represented as having put an end to their incursions on the Roman territory ; that is , his argu- ments were so powerful , that they could not resist him ; yet they ...
... astronomical studies . Cæsar did not conquer Germany , though he is represented as having put an end to their incursions on the Roman territory ; that is , his argu- ments were so powerful , that they could not resist him ; yet they ...
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Side 27 - ... he speaks the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope,' the whole world will at once pronounce him insincere.
Side 85 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Side 9 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Side 10 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin, Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find...
Side 121 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Side 25 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Side 120 - Simeon and Levi are brethren ; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
Side 65 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Side 84 - Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up?
Side 141 - The law of the Jew, graven on tables of stone outside the man, stared him in the face as a dread menace against all disobedience, to be vindicated in this world as well as in that which is to come.