 | John Lindley - 1866 - 696 pages
...that tied him, this root Is easily plucked up, but the dog dies Immediately, as If It were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...any one be afraid of taking it Into their hands.' Dloscorides mentions a male and female kind of Mandrake, which appa! rently correspond with tbe spring... | |
 | Isaac Mayer Wise - 1868 - 548 pages
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up ; but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up ; but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after this need any one cim observes here, that in Grcccia Major and Sicily they linJ rue prodigiously great and durable, like... | |
 | John Lindley, Thomas Moore - 1874 - 762 pages
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but tbc dog dies immediately, аз if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...any one be afraid of taking it into their hands.' Dioscorides mentions a male and female kind of Mandrake, which apparently correspond with the spring... | |
 | 1884 - 658 pages
...in giving account of a wonderful plant, and the difficulties and dangers of gathering it, says : " After all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath — that if it only be brought to sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...(our centuries. See Antiq. B. vi. ch. viii. sect. 2 ; U. ii. ch. ii. sect ,',. be afraid of tak.ng it into their hands. Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - 1917 - 196 pages
...him that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as it were, instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after this would any one be afraid of taking it into their hands. ... If it be only brought to sick persons, it... | |
 | 1919 - 542 pages
...him that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Maurice Arthur Canney - 1921 - 416 pages
...Ware of the Jews (vii. 6, 3) Josephus mentions a herb Baaras which was difficult to pluck. He adds : " Yet, after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that If It be only brought to sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons, which... | |
 | Arthur Wakefield Slaten - 1922 - 232 pages
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away; nor after this need anyone be afraid of taking it into his hands. Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable... | |
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... they dig a trench quite round about it, till the hidden part of the root be very small, they then tie a dog to it, and when the dog tries hard to follow him that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were... 
