Questions

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A01185	Is it such a fast, that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and to bow downe his head like a Bull- rush?
A01185	Moreouer, to what iudgement can the conformitie and signification of Names seeme obscure?
A01185	Num tandem hoc est illud ieiunium, quod ELEGI, vt homo animam suam in diem vnum affligat,& caput instar iunceae demittat?
A42508	33. that makes me inclinable to this opinion; for there Manasseh rears up Altars broken down, plants Groves for Baalim: To what purpose I pray?
A42508	Nec dum Laomedonteae sentis perjuria gent ● s?
A42508	They were but Wood, Stone, or Metal, that could neither hear, nor deliver us: and are not the Images of the Saints of the same kind?
A42508	Vis ne mihi esse paterfamilias?
A42508	What qualities do the Papists fancy in them, that do cause them to excel the Idols of the Heathens?
A42508	Yet these were they that all the Prophets do cry against: How can therefore the Romanists reckon themselves guiltless?
A39702	And can those Tears, let fall From her bright eyes, not strait congeal withall To Pearls, we more than Oriental call?
A39702	And can those sighs be breathed into air, From lips so fair, and sweet, But we must straightway see''t: Ambrosique sweet, as Rosie fair?
A39702	As well as mine: For let him pass unpunish''d, and who shall Hereafter think there''s any Gods at all?
A39702	BUt why thus weep I, for that perfidious, who Abandons, and leaves me so?
A39702	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
A39702	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
A39702	Shall we the whilst contribute nothing to Her rage, as well as to her woe?
A39702	What lovely grief and sorrow''s this, At once mine eyes, and admiration draw?
A39702	What shu''d I say?
A39702	the most forlorn, As ever yet was born, With killing dolors more than Tongue can speak, O heart, why dos''t not break?
A39702	what can I do?
A57657	Amongst whom reigns this hellish Regiment?
A57657	And as for Charity, How is she hiss''d at, by a barbarous croud?
A57657	And how shall I Resist the tyrannie Of Vulcan, if I have not arms of strength?
A57657	Fear not, our life''s a warfare; either we Must fight, or else where is our victory?
A57657	From heaven shall any man for riches fall, And lose his soul and all?
A57657	Good God, who can without a briny flood Of tears, behold the losse of so much bloud?
A57657	He is our husband, not our foe, Then whither will you from him go?
A57657	How can Joves lovely daughter dwell Amongst such monsters hatcht in hell?
A57657	How can we sleep in such security, As that we can not see Our dangers, nor that lamp, whose silver ray Drives black- fac''d night away?
A57657	How night and day I mourn To see such wars, such wrongs, such cruelties, And love exil''d, which was as we All know, Christ''s Will and Legacie?
A57657	Or why should man forsake his Soveraign good, To catch an empty cloud?
A57657	The Pilots skill how can we know, Till Tempests blow?
A57657	What means the Moon, to dote so much upon The fair Endymeon?
A57657	What wonder is it then, If Charity be sad, and discontent, And hides her self from men?
A57657	When shall I end this pilgrimage?
A57657	When wilt thou ope this fleshly cage, This prison, and this house of clay, That hence my soul may fly away?
A57657	Who can avoid his piercing blow?
A57657	Who can unbend his reaching Bow?
A57657	Who think you may with priviledge Rob Churches, and the Priests annoy?
A57659	And is it not a shame that there should be more justice in hell then on earth?
A57659	And what are men without( b) religion and civility but stones, representing in their conditions the nature of the place where they live?
A57659	And what neglect is it in Ministers to give that which is holy to dogs?
A57659	Every mans desire and inclination may be called his Genius, to which it seems the Poet alluded, saying, Ansua cuique deus fit dira cupido?
A57659	For how can a wicked Prince, whose life is full of blacknesse and darknesse, be just?
A57659	How many under the fair wing of religion hide the fowle pawes of their wicked actions?
A57659	How sweet is oblivion of evils, saith Orestes in Euripides?
A57659	IF the Gentile gods did so much abhorre the eating of mans flesh, how much more doth the true God detest the sacrifices of mans fl ● sh?
A57659	Is not gelding more then forbearing?
A57659	Mars was conceived of Juno by touching a flower: what is more specious to the eye, and yet what more frivolous then a flower?
A57659	On the other side, how doe they dishonour God, who swear by his Name rashly and falsely, and yet are not punished?
A57659	What fooles were they to make him a god who killed a Lion, and could not kill his owne violence, and the wild beasts of his anger and fury?
A57659	What is prayer withou ● bowels of mercy, but like a key without a lock, or li ● ● Janus without Carne?
A57659	aut quae inquinatio, si illa l ● vatio?
A57659	how are they to blame that are impatient, and rage when God by death calls away their friends and children?
A57659	if you look upon mens garments, into what monstrous shapes do men turne their bodies almost every moneth?
A57659	mene huic considere moustro?
A36242	AND why should he never have been mentioned by those antient Apologists for the Christian Religion who wrote before Porphyry?
A36242	And after all, what judicious Person would not rather enquire for this Information Originally from the Aegyptians themselves?
A36242	And how greedily would Celsus have seconded him if he had known of any such work Published by him?
A36242	And if so, what probability had there been of their miscarriage?
A36242	And indeed, how unlikely is it, that Gideon should have left such Memoires behind him?
A36242	And is not this a plain design upon the Cretan Jupiter, to make him, as well as his Nurses, Originally Phoenician?
A36242	And that therefore Thoth was reckoned for the first Month in the year because the Dog- star rose in it?
A36242	And then how proper was it for them to receive the Gentile name of their Patrons Family?
A36242	And then, what credit must that part of his History be of, which relyes on so uncreditable Informations?
A36242	And who can reconcile this pretended Testimony from Clemens with Porphyry, who certainly, if any, conversed with the Original Translation?
A36242	And who can undertake that they would, after all, deal Faithfully with him?
A36242	And who knows not how great a Piaculum it was thought to divulge Mysteries?
A36242	And( concerning the Aegyptians) from their Worship of Harpocrates?
A36242	BUT how many things are here supposed no way consistent with the Notions of those times?
A36242	BUT to ascend yet higher, what should hinder him from being known even before Philo Byblius, if he had been what he is pretended?
A36242	BUT what is it he pretends to tell us from Clemens Alexandrinus?
A36242	BUT who is this Son of Thabion, who is said to have turned them back into Allegories, and from whom they came at last to the Greeks?
A36242	But how much more might they presume it, if they took his Person to have been the same also?
A36242	But what ground could he have in doing so, from the Old Testament?
A36242	But what imaginable cause is there why he was not Translated more Antiently?
A36242	But where is there the least intimation that he wore it himself?
A36242	But who ever mentions such a Translation amongst the Works of Josephus?
A36242	But why should he not at least, have been better known after the Greek Translation of him by Philo Byblius?
A36242	But would they, at least, have paid that Honour to the Memory of a Person guilty of a crime then reputed so very impious as to make him a God?
A36242	Can we think the Phoenicians would have valued him, if his own Country- men had so neglected him?
A36242	Can we think they would thus generally have neglected him, if they had known him, or thought him Genuine?
A36242	Especially if they had suspected the least design in him of committing them to Writing, and divulging them to Posterity?
A36242	How comes Sanchoniathon, if there had then been any such Author extant, to have escaped their diligence?
A36242	How comes it to pass they should all of them overlook this most considerable, most creditable Author?
A36242	How could Gideon be a Priest, who was of the Tribe of Manasseh?
A36242	How could he have slipt such an opportunity as this was, of mentioning him, if he had known him?
A36242	How could they guess at the Doctrine of Enoch, but by the Apocryphal Writings then extant under his name?
A36242	How could they have taken up this conjecture, but from the agreement they had observed between the Doctrines of Atlas, and those of Enoch?
A36242	How much Antienter?
A36242	How much freer from design?
A36242	How much more easie was it for him to impose on them in a Tongue so little understood by them as the Hebrew or Punick?
A36242	How particularly Superstitious the Antients were that way, as appears from the Fables of Phineus and Prometheus?
A36242	How then could Sanchoniathon come by them who lived so many Ages after?
A36242	However, if they were again involved by this Second Hermes, how comes Sanchoniathon to have understood them?
A36242	If they were, how comes it to pass that none but Athenaeus should take notice of an Author so extreamly valuable, if he had been genuine?
A36242	P. 58. l. 27. disposal?
A36242	Suppose he had been so negligent himself; yet, how could King Abibalus, to whom he is said to have Dedicated his Book?
A36242	Was it because he was locked up in the Phoenician Tongue?
A36242	Was it not rather to acquaint himself with their Philosophical Improvements?
A36242	Was it on account of the Ephod which Gideon made?
A36242	Was it only to see their Countries and their Fashions?
A36242	Was it therefore in what is lost?
A36242	What was Pythagoras''s design in Travelling amongst them?
A36242	What?
A36242	Which how could he have said if he had known any thing of this most Antient Sanchoniathon?
A36242	Who can endure to see 1 Abraham, to see the famous Aegyptian 2 Hermes, made Original Phoenicians?
A36242	Who sees not a plain design to rob the Chaldaeans of the Magi, and to make them a Phoenician Invention?
A36242	Who sees not that the whole contrivance of that year was exactly fitted to the course of that Star?
A36242	Why did they not Translate him then?
A36242	Why did they not, at least, take out of him, and vouch him for their Authority?
A36242	Why had they not rather recourse to Philo Byblius himself, if he had been common?
A36242	Would have dishonoured Abraham himself, so far as to have made him a Heathen Deity, a thing so detested by the Jews?
A36242	Yet who can doubt but that he also mistook Clemens Alexandrinus for Eusebius?
A36242	one Mans Blood, and from such a wound as that was, to have flowed into the Fountains and Rivers?
A55340	And do not the oldest Men become Children by too much Drink?
A55340	And does not VVine mask and disguise us strangely?
A55340	And what means the Cock and the Owl, that are painted there?
A55340	And what more plainly expresses the devilish Arts of wicked Women?
A55340	And why is it said that Cadmus''s Companions were converted into Serpents, but because the Word Hevaeus in the Syriac signifies a Serpent?
A55340	Are they( I pray you) of the number of the Gods?
A55340	Are those the Gods of the Waters?
A55340	As soon as Tiresias had seen Minerva naked, he lost his sight; was it for a punishment, or for a reward?
A55340	As what place is there so fortified and guarded, into which Love can not find a passage?
A55340	BUT pray why is that Stone or Log placed there( the distance will not let me distinguish which of the two it is)?
A55340	Behold, have we not reason for our Pride?
A55340	But do you see the Man rowling himself upon the ground, and tearing and eating his own flesh?
A55340	But how inconstant is Venus?
A55340	But how shall we prove that Sem was Pluto ● What carried him into Hell?
A55340	But th''Project Jove and Venus smile to see, And laugh the jealous Dad to scorn: What can resist a lustful Deity, That for a bout to Gold will turn?
A55340	But what followed?
A55340	But what now?
A55340	But when Silenus once was taken, and asked, Quidnam esset hominibus optimum?
A55340	But why do I here detain you with words?
A55340	But would you have us stay here all day without our Dinner?
A55340	But, was not she rather the Daughter of Nisus King of Megara?
A55340	Can any thing that is more pleasing happen to me?
A55340	Could no Passengers ever escape this Plague?
A55340	Did Noah foretel the coming of the Flood?
A55340	Did all other Nations of the World worship Belus?
A55340	Did you not promise to explain all the Images in the fabulous Pantheon?
A55340	Do you call those Cornuted Monsters Gods, who are half Men, and half Beasts, hairy and shaggy, with Goats Feet, and Horses Tails?
A55340	Do you not know that she is the Goddess of the Fruits, and that her very Name is derived à gerendis frugibus?
A55340	Does it not make Men Beasts; and turn one into a Lion, another into a Bear, another into a Swine, or an Ass?
A55340	Does not Excess deprive us of that Reason that distinguishes Men from Boys?
A55340	For indeed what cherishes the Heart of Man so much us Wine?
A55340	For of what sort of Lewdness in the World was he not guilty?
A55340	For who without blushing can hear of the Story of Nyctimene?
A55340	Have you given your self up to Venus?
A55340	He deflowred Clytoris, a Virgin of Thessalia, of great Beauty, by metamorphosing himself into what?
A55340	Here is a Goddess whose Head is crowned with Towers, what mean ● this?
A55340	His Offices and Qualities?
A55340	How decent, and becoming is their Dress?
A55340	How does it spread, rage, and encrease?
A55340	How handsomely do they sit together in the Shade of that Laurel Arbour?
A55340	How many Possessions reduced to Ashes?
A55340	How many apply their Devotions to this day?
A55340	How pleasantly, and kindly they smile?
A55340	How sad is the fate of an effeminate Man?
A55340	How tempting and ra ● ishing are the Beauty of her Smile, and the Gracefulness of her Breasts?
A55340	How vain have I been, and troublesome to you, Palaeophilus?
A55340	How well ● oes a Scepter become those Hands, and a Crown that Head?
A55340	How ● right, how majestical, how charming is that ● ace, how comely are her Shapes?
A55340	Huc natas adjice septem, Et totidem Iuvenes:& mox Generosque Nurusq, Quaerite nunc habeat quam nostra superbia causam?
A55340	If I live,''T is by your favour: — With whom would not such gentle words prevail?
A55340	Is it true?
A55340	Is one Egg more like another than this Fable is like the History of the Philistines?
A55340	Is she the Goddess of Cities and Garrisons?
A55340	Is there any Heart so very hard and Iron- like, which Mony can not soften?
A55340	It is Flora the Goddess and President of the Flowers: is it not?
A55340	M. DO you see a stately Goddess drawn in a Chariot of Gold by White Horses, who do you think she is?
A55340	M. Do you expect a Man among the Gods?
A55340	M. So, Palaeophilus: Have you thus long cheated me?
A55340	M. WHY are you so silent Palaeophilus?
A55340	M. WHY do you laugh, Palaeophilus?
A55340	M. What do you say?
A55340	M. What do you talk of Trouble?
A55340	M. Why not?
A55340	M. Why?
A55340	M. Yes you; who have counterfeited the person of an ordinary and ignorant Man, till now, so dexterously?
A55340	M. You mean in these Nine Virgins, that are crowned with Palms, do you not?
A55340	M. You shall know, after you have first heard how many Apollo''s there were?
A55340	Me mihi prodis, ait?
A55340	Or what Infamy is there not branded upon his Name?
A55340	Or what is his name?
A55340	P, I?
A55340	P. A God do you say?
A55340	P. ARE any of his Actions recorded in History?
A55340	P. And what became of Memnon?
A55340	P. And what was the event of the Voyage?
A55340	P. And whither did Saturn go after he had lost his Kingdom?
A55340	P. And who were those Amazons, that you mentioned just now?
A55340	P. And why were the Pleiades so calld?
A55340	P. Are there no other Exploits of his?
A55340	P. BUT what mean those Young Ladies that dance about him?
A55340	P. BY what Means was Apollo advanced to the highest degree of Honour and Worship?
A55340	P. But Why were the Fruits of the Earth corrupted in her absence?
A55340	P. But by what Fate became Proserpine the Wife of this Black God?
A55340	P. But if Terra swore, that she would allow no place to Latona, how could she bring forth in Delos?
A55340	P. But what Evet is that by Ceres Feet?
A55340	P. But what became of Clytemnestra?
A55340	P. But what''s here?
A55340	P. But wherefore is Cupid naked?
A55340	P. But who is that young Man, that sits in a Chariot drawn by flying Serpents?
A55340	P. But who was the first Fictor and Assertor of False Gods?
A55340	P. But why is she Cloathed with Armour, rather than with Womens Cloaths; What means that Headpiece of Gold, and the Crests that glitter so?
A55340	P. Did Iason carry away that Fleece?
A55340	P. Did Saturn accept that Condition?
A55340	P. Do you call him Mars, that is so fierce and sowr in his look?
A55340	P. Does History relate nothing done by her?
A55340	P. HOW many Names has Iupiter?
A55340	P. Have these Gods been all of the same Order and Dignity?
A55340	P. How far I prithee will the Fervour and the flowing Tide of your Wit and Fancy carry you?
A55340	P. How many and what kind of Gods did the Romans worship?
A55340	P. How many?
A55340	P. I observe him: what is his Name, and why is he so cruel to himself?
A55340	P. IS that Pan?
A55340	P. IS then this Goddess called Terra?
A55340	P. If he was a God, what Misfortune drove him to the Forge, and tyed him to such a ● asty Employment?
A55340	P. If she is the Wife of Coelum, why is she placed amongst this Terrestrial Goddesses, and not amongst the Coelestial rather?
A55340	P. In what Place was Apollo the Son of Latona born?
A55340	P. Is it not Aur ● ra, the Daughter of Terra and Titan, the Sister of the Sun and the Moon, and the Mother of the Stars and the Winds?
A55340	P. Is that Venus, the Goddess of Love?
A55340	P. Is that decrepid wrinkled old Man Saturn?
A55340	P. Is there nothing remarkable concerning?
A55340	P. Of what Parents was he born?
A55340	P. Say you so?
A55340	P. Those three( or four Rivers, if my Eyes do not deceive me) must be passed over by the dead, must they not?
A55340	P. WHAT Children had Iuno by Iupiter?
A55340	P. WHAT Names had the Muses, common to them all?
A55340	P. WHAT is this man, and what is his name?
A55340	P. WHAT was the Birth of Orion?
A55340	P. WHAT were the Proper Names of each of them?
A55340	P. WHO are those two handsom, beautiful young Men that ride upon white Horses?
A55340	P. WHO is he, that sustains the Heavens upon his Shoulders?
A55340	P. WHO is that nasty, old, battered, bearded, Fellow?
A55340	P. WHO is that young Man, with a cheerful Countenance, an honest Look, and lively Eyes; who is so fair with- out Paint?
A55340	P. WHO were the Parents of Theseus?
A55340	P. WHat Family was Apollo born of?
A55340	P. WHat was the Number of the Muses?
A55340	P. WHat were those Seven Wonders of the World?
A55340	P. WHen Iupiter was grown to be a Man, what did he perform worthy of Memory?
A55340	P. WHere are those Fates?
A55340	P. Was the power of darting Thunder and Lightning in the hands of Iupiter only?
A55340	P. Was this Artifice ever discovered to Saturn?
A55340	P. What Gods, do you shew me?
A55340	P. What Golden Fleece was that?
A55340	P. What Leda was that?
A55340	P. What are their Names and Offices?
A55340	P. What did King AEta do then?
A55340	P. What did the Poets intend by these Furies?
A55340	P. What did the Poets signifie by this Fiction?
A55340	P. What do these Fables of Scylla and Charybdis represent to us?
A55340	P. What end had they?
A55340	P. What great Actions did Theseus perform?
A55340	P. What is its Name?
A55340	P. What is the Office of these Furies?
A55340	P. What memorable Actions did Castor and Pollux do?
A55340	P. What memorable things did he perform?
A55340	P. What old toothless Hag is that which flatters Pomona?
A55340	P. What then?
A55340	P. What was the Occasion of the feigning of many Gods?
A55340	P. What was the Office and Power of Pluto?
A55340	P. What was the Tripus in which the Pythian Lady sat?
A55340	P. What?
A55340	P. When, and in what manner do they say that happened?
A55340	P. Whence came the Name, Hyades?
A55340	P. Where is Iupiter?
A55340	P. Where is that Bellona?
A55340	P. Where was he particularly worshipt?
A55340	P. Where, and by whom was this Iupiter educated?
A55340	P. Who was that Ariadne?
A55340	P. Who was that Diana Taurica?
A55340	P. Who were his Daughters?
A55340	P. Who were the Parents of Momus?
A55340	P. Who were the Parents that Iupiter was born of?
A55340	P. Who were those Wise Men of Greece?
A55340	P. Why are there only three Furies?
A55340	P. Why did he go down into Hell?
A55340	P. Why does he tarry with his Boat here?
A55340	P. Why then is she so beautifully painted?
A55340	P. You said just now that he was the Son of Deucalion; do you mean him who repaired the Race of Mankind, which was almost extinct?
A55340	Pray what is the signification of it?
A55340	Quare nuda Venus?
A55340	Quem non blanda Deae potuissent verba movere?
A55340	Quid non sentit amor?
A55340	Quid rides?
A55340	Risit Atlantiades:& me mihi perfide prodis?
A55340	Shall I be woo''d, or wooe?
A55340	The Riddle was this; Quodnam anima ● mane quadrupes, meridie bipes, vesperi tripes esset?
A55340	The neighbouring Country- men seeing her, forbade her, tho she begged of them leave to; drink in this manner: Quid prohibetis aquas?
A55340	Their looks are full of Terror; they hold lighted Torches in their hands: Snakes and Serpents lash their Necks and Shoulders?
A55340	Then Hermes laughing loud; what knave I say, Me to my self, to my self me betray?
A55340	This for so many Ages undescry''d,( What can not love find out?)
A55340	To th''Shades you go a down hill easie way, But to return and re enjoy the Day, That is a Work, a Labour, — P. Why is he called Pluto?
A55340	VVhat could Pyramus do?
A55340	Vest ibulum ante ipsum, primisque in faucibus Orci?
A55340	WHat Deeds can you expect from an impudent and powerful Strumpet, but those which are full of Lewdness, and Mischief, and Plagues?
A55340	WHat sort of Building is that before us, of so unusual a Figure?
A55340	Was Bacchus taken out of the Body of his Mother Semele in the midst of Thunder and Lightning?
A55340	Was this done because he was the Inventor of Laurel Garlands?
A55340	We sha ● speak but of that one which was born 〈 ◊ 〉 Iupiter, and to whom the rest are referre ● P. But how was she born?
A55340	What Animal is that, which goes upon four Feet in the morning, upon two at noon, and upon three at night?
A55340	What Vows do they make, and Altars do they importune, that they may fill their Coffers?
A55340	What a Crowd of dea ● Deities is here, if all these are Deities, whose Figures I see painted and devised upon the Walls?
A55340	What are their Names?
A55340	What destructions not only of Mens Estates, but of the Understandings also, have happened here?
A55340	What employs your thoughts so long?
A55340	What is this?
A55340	What makes him hide the half of his Body so?
A55340	What means that Naked God, with his Sickle, behind the Trunk of that Tree?
A55340	What shall I crave?
A55340	What was the best thing that could befal men?
A55340	When Solon visited Croesus, the King of Lydia, the King shew''d his vast Treasures to him; and asked him whether he knew a Man happier than he?
A55340	Whereabouts would you have me look?
A55340	Whereas how little have I expressed all this time in a multitude of Words?
A55340	Who does not abhor the Fact of Myrrha, which was contrived and committed by the encouragement and the assistance of Venus?
A55340	Why is her Dress so glorious?
A55340	Why is not her Chariot rather drawn by Swine, and Dogs, and Goats, than Swans and Doves, the purest and chastest of Birds?
A55340	Why is''t that tho I other Gods adore, I first must Janus Deity implore?
A55340	Why should I set before you Pygmalion a Statua ● y?
A55340	Why''s Venus naked, and the Loves are so?
A55340	Will you not keep your word?
A55340	With what fury and violence does it bear down and destroy every thing?
A55340	and how base Ingratitude?
A55340	gives this Answer to one that asks him the Question, Cur quamvis aliorum numina placem, Iane, tibi primum, thura merumque fero?
A55340	having Wings fixed to his Hat and his Shooes, and a Rod in his hand, which is winged and bound about by a couple of Serpents?
A55340	his Master Chiron?
A55340	nudi pinguntur amores?
A55340	or how could Thisbe bea ● this?
A55340	since she comes to the good and the b ● d without any judgment?
A55340	that horned half Goat, crowned with a Pine?
A55340	the Patroness of Strumpets, the vile promoter of Impudence and Lust; infamous for so many Whoredoms, Rapes, and Incests?
A55340	with a smiling red Face; and the Feet and Tail of a Goat, cloathed with a spotted Skin?
A55340	— Tibi inconsumpta juventa?
A55340	— Why hinder you, said she, The use of Water, that to all is free?