 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eye-lids, over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet (Jer, iv. 30.)^ may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eye-lids, over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet (Jer. iv. SO.) may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
 | James Macknight - 1809 - 544 sidor
...pounded to an impalpable powder, wa< the mineral which they al*rivf made use ct" fi- painting t'uc eyes, and then drawing it afterwards through the eye-lids,...the eye, we have a lively image of what the prophet Jeremiah (iv. 30.) may be supposed to mean by renting the eyes (not as we render it, with painting,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eye-lids, over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet ( Jer. iv. 30.) may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1815 - 436 sidor
...This operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through, the eye-lids, over the ball of the eye." Ezekiel (xxiii. 40,) uses the same word in the form of a verb, fyy rhm, " thou didst dress thine eyes... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer. iv. 30.) may be supposed to mean ,by rending the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 sidor
...of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer. iv. 30.) may be supposed to mean by rending the eyes with painting. This practice is no doubt of great antiquity ;... | |
 | Isaiah (the prophet) - 1822 - 464 sidor
...This operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids, over the ball of the eye." Ezekiel (xxiii. 40.) uses the same word in the form of a verb, *\"yy rbrts, " thou didst dress thine... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eye-lids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet (Jer. iv. 3o.) may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 sidor
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards, through the eye-lids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet (Jer. iv. 3o.) may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
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None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin... 
