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Cum autem esset in fornace apparuit ei beata uirgo in specie imaginis quam super altare uiderat & eum eciam sine sensu caloris liberauit.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Spaniards, he letteth downe the chaine & the kettle 140. elnes into the fornace: there, by extreme heate of the fire, the kettle,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Spaniards, he letteth downe the chaine & the kettle 140. elnes into the fornace: there, by extreme heate of the fire, the kettle,
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But our men/as they are veraye bolde to abuse the scripture for their purpose/go on further and aske/how it happened that Daniel was not throwen into the fierie fornace with his felowes?
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Daniel his thre felows did gyue themselues/to be thrown in to the burnynge fornace/rather then they wold worshipp the kinges golden Image.
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Wherevpon I at that present thought my selfe most happie, onely in the behoulding of such delights, because I was not able to resist the burning flames which did set vpon mee in the fornace of my heart.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The nature of the Porphyrit stone is of this secrecie, that in the fornace it will neither burne it selfe, but also causeth other stones neere adioyning that they shall not burne.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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These are they that cry fire and fagot, away with them, not worthy to live, their very mercies are cruelty: especially in their owne cause, they heat the fornace seaven times hotter then in Gods.
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Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In this state it was called _Giallolino di fornace_, and was introduced as a pigment for artists, under the erroneous conception that vitrification gives permanence to colours, when in truth it only increases the difficulty of levigation, and injures their texture for working.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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