A Scriptural and Allegorical Glossary to Milton's Paradise LostAuthoress, 1828 - 282 pages |
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... ancient appellation , since the year 860 , A. D. when the inundations of the sea destroyed the regularity of its mouth . 355 Danaw when her barbarous sons . Danubus , a celebrated river , the greatest in Europe , which rises near the ...
... ancient appellation , since the year 860 , A. D. when the inundations of the sea destroyed the regularity of its mouth . 355 Danaw when her barbarous sons . Danubus , a celebrated river , the greatest in Europe , which rises near the ...
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... ancients gave the name of the columns of Hercules , to two mountains , Calpe in Europe , and Abyl in Africa ; they considered them as the limits of the world on the west . 355 . - - 361 · - to the Lybian sands . Lybia in Africa , is now ...
... ancients gave the name of the columns of Hercules , to two mountains , Calpe in Europe , and Abyl in Africa ; they considered them as the limits of the world on the west . 355 . - - 361 · - to the Lybian sands . Lybia in Africa , is now ...
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... ancient piece of worship , and probably the first occasion of such a superstition . " We came to a fair large river , doubtless the ancient river Adonis , so famous for the idolatrous rites performed here in lamentation of Adonis . We ...
... ancient piece of worship , and probably the first occasion of such a superstition . " We came to a fair large river , doubtless the ancient river Adonis , so famous for the idolatrous rites performed here in lamentation of Adonis . We ...
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... ancients of Israel ; and in the midst of them , stood Jaazaniah , the son of Shap- han , with every man his censor in his hand ; and a thick cloud of incense went up . Then , said he unto me : Son of man , hast thou seen what the ancients ...
... ancients of Israel ; and in the midst of them , stood Jaazaniah , the son of Shap- han , with every man his censor in his hand ; and a thick cloud of incense went up . Then , said he unto me : Son of man , hast thou seen what the ancients ...
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... ; and Greeks , from Gracchus , one of their ancient kings . 508 Of Javan's issue held . Javan was the fourth son of Japhet , and the grandson of Noah . Javan and his posterity first 510 peopled that part of Greece , which was called 22.
... ; and Greeks , from Gracchus , one of their ancient kings . 508 Of Javan's issue held . Javan was the fourth son of Japhet , and the grandson of Noah . Javan and his posterity first 510 peopled that part of Greece , which was called 22.
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