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11th house 2d house 7th house afflicted ancient Aquarius Aries ascendant astronomy become birth body Broughton brown hair calculated called Cancer Capricorn causes the native chart commenced complexion conjunction cusp dark death denotes describe a person disease disposition doctors earth enemies England Ephemeris especially evil aspect evil planet eyes father female fixed signs fond fortunate planet friends Gemini give heavens horoscope house the house indicates journeys Jupiter lady laws learned Libra line marked live longitude lord marriage marry Medical Astrology medicine Mercury middle stature midheaven mind Moon native's nature Neptune perihelion persons born physician Pisces Planetary Hours planetary influence present day Proctor published reader remarkable rules Sagittary science of Astrology Scorpio sextile short sickness significator square or opposition stout student Sun and Moon Sunrise superior planets tall Taurus tion trine triplicity unfortunate Uranus Venus Virgo wife York Zodiac
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Page 58 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it : and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying. It is not in me : God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Page 58 - And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13 AND when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Page 58 - The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me : if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Page 448 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 394 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 352 - Vapors of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled, ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting, in all, to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became...
Page 384 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament...
Page 58 - Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Page 352 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 57 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?