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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 13-18
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, To set down more fully the description which the natural Historian gives of her. The African and Ethiopian Ostriches (saith he) are the greatest of birds, even as big as a beast, 1in height they are taller than a horse and his rider sitting on his back; they also exceed the horse in swiftness of foot, their wings seeming to be given them only to help them in running, for they can scarcely fly at all, or lift themselves much above ground. They are cloven-footed, or hoof-forked like a Hart, their hoofs or claws serving them to gather up stones, which in their flight or retreat, they throw backward upon such as hunt them. They have an admirable concoction, digesting the hardest things which they swallow down; nor is their folly less admirable, thinking themselves sufficiently hid, when their heads are. Their eggs serve for cups to drink in, and their feathers adorn the crests and helmets of the Warrior.
First, To set down more fully the description which the natural Historian gives of her. The African and Ethiopian Ostriches (saith he) are the greatest of birds, even as big as a beast, 1in height they are taller than a horse and his rider sitting on his back; they also exceed the horse in swiftness of foot, their wings seeming to be given them only to help them in running, for they can scarcely flie at all, or lift themselves much above ground. They are cloven-footed, or hoof-forked like a Hart, their hoofs or claws serving them to gather up stones, which in their flight or retreat, they throw backward upon such as hunt them. They have an admirable concoction, digesting the hardest things which they swallow down; nor is their folly less admirable, thinking themselves sufficiently hid, when their heads are. Their eggs serve for cups to drink in, and their feathers adorn the crests and helmets of the Warrior.
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