Sanctæ Vigiliæ, Or, Devout Musings on the Heavens in Verse |
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Sanctæ Vigiliæ, Or Devout Musings on the Heavens in Verse (Classic Reprint) Clement Dawsonne Strong No preview available - 2018 |
Sanctæ Vigiliæ, Or Devout Musings on the Heavens in Verse (Classic Reprint) Clement Dawsonne Strong No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 30 - Lift up your eyes on high, and 'behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number. He calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Page 68 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Page 108 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 115 - Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 45 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Page 127 - Qua niger astriferis conectitur axibus aer Quodque patet terras inter lunaeque meatus, Semidei manes habitant, quos ignea virtus Innocuos vita patientes aetheris imi Fecit, et aeternos animam collegit in orbes : Non illuc auro positi nee ture sepulti 10 Perveniunt.
Page 116 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Page 115 - Hic canit errantem Lunam , Solisque labores ; Unde hominum genus, et pecudes; unde imber, et ignes; Arcturum , pluviasque Hyadas , geminosque Triones ; Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles Hyberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 107 - I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and the morning star.
Page 107 - Jupiter was universal, and surpassed that of the other gods in solemnity : he was the Ammon of the Africans, the Belus of Babylon, the Osiris of Egypt, &c. From him mankind received their blessings and their miseries, and they looked upon him as acquainted with everything, past, present, and future.