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 páginas |
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... arguments , and metaphysical subtleties , he traces the goddess through all the living and dead languages , till he discovers her in the recesses of words , in the consonants of a radical , or in the rem- nant of a zodiac . " Truth ...
... arguments , and metaphysical subtleties , he traces the goddess through all the living and dead languages , till he discovers her in the recesses of words , in the consonants of a radical , or in the rem- nant of a zodiac . " Truth ...
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... arguments to those in the Edipus Judaicus , and I may therefore confidently ask , If one hypothesis be worthy of public favor , why should not the other ? Each has the same sort of objections to overcome , and each may be supported on ...
... arguments to those in the Edipus Judaicus , and I may therefore confidently ask , If one hypothesis be worthy of public favor , why should not the other ? Each has the same sort of objections to overcome , and each may be supported on ...
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... arguments on which this hypothesis is supported , are derived from etymology , coincidence , and tradition . I pretend that the Roman historians , Tacitus , Suetonius , & c . , had their esoteric , and exoteric doctrines : they are enig ...
... arguments on which this hypothesis is supported , are derived from etymology , coincidence , and tradition . I pretend that the Roman historians , Tacitus , Suetonius , & c . , had their esoteric , and exoteric doctrines : they are enig ...
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... arguments are likewise deduced from etymology , coinci- dence , and tradition ; and I trust by their assistance " to explain the hidden sense of many passages , " in the Roman historians . The task I have assigned myself , with all its ...
... arguments are likewise deduced from etymology , coinci- dence , and tradition ; and I trust by their assistance " to explain the hidden sense of many passages , " in the Roman historians . The task I have assigned myself , with all its ...
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... Sir William Drummond's merit therefore is exceedingly great , that in spite of such deterring difficulties he has been able to furnish arguments to support Edip . B 1 his hypothesis , that these were astrono- mical emblems : 17.
... Sir William Drummond's merit therefore is exceedingly great , that in spite of such deterring difficulties he has been able to furnish arguments to support Edip . B 1 his hypothesis , that these were astrono- mical emblems : 17.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.