 | John Wesley - Biography - 1785 - 718 pages
...them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were oiieii wont fo 10 apply it, at this day, out of an opinion of its prolific virtue. This Prieft fhewed me a copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch;, but would not be perfuaded to part... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1848 - 552 pages
...of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were often wont so to apply it at this day, out of an opinion of its prolific virtue. Of these plants 1 saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem ; and, if they were so common... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1848 - 566 pages
...of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were often wont so to apply it at this day, out of an opinion of its prolific virtue. Of these plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem ; and, if they were so common... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed ; that the women were often wont so to apply it at this day, out of an opinion of its prolific virtue. Of these plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem." Later, Hasselquist found... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1919 - 606 pages
...virtue of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were often wont to apply it, at this day, out of an opinion of its prolifick virtue. Of these plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem ; and if they were... | |
 | Marten Stol, F. A. M. Wiggermann - History - 2000 - 294 pages
...of them was to help Conception, being laid under the Genial Bed. That the Women were often wont so to apply it, at this day, out of an opinion of its prolifick virtue. Of these Plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem". There is a German... | |
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... husband's embraces ? He said they were plants of a large leaf, bearing a certain sort of fruit, in shape resembling an apple, growing ripe in harvest, but of an ill savour, and not wholesome. But the virtue of them was to help conception, being laid... 