A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

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A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Newberry and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1654.
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"A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33339.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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Porsennah's Tomb described.

Porsenna King of Hetruria, not far from the City [ 7] of Clusium built for himself a Monument of square stone, each side of it was three hundred foot broad, and fifty foot high; within which square Basis there was an inextricable labyrinth, into which whosoever adventured without a clue could find no passage out. Upon this square he erected five Pyramids, four in the corners, and one in the middest; in the bottom they were seventy five foot broad, and each of them one hundred and fifty foot high, on the top was one brasse circle, and covering for them all, from which there hung bells fastned with chains, which being moved with the wind, gave a sound afar off: Upon this brazen circle stood other four

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Pyramids, each of them one hundred foot high; and upon them (being covered with another plain) were again erected five other Pyramids, the height whereof my Author was ashamed to name: so foo∣lishly did he waste the wealth of his Kingdome, that in the end the commendation of the Artificer should be the greatest. Pliny out of Varro; and Greaves out of him.

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