Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes |
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... these Vermin fwar- med about the Blood of the Sa- crifices offered to him . He was worshipped firft at Babylon , and then every where ; but chiefly by the People of Ekron , 2 Kin . i . 2 . Here it is the Name of one Grand Prince of the ...
... these Vermin fwar- med about the Blood of the Sa- crifices offered to him . He was worshipped firft at Babylon , and then every where ; but chiefly by the People of Ekron , 2 Kin . i . 2 . Here it is the Name of one Grand Prince of the ...
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... these Rebels ; the Holy Angels . See Pfalm ciii . 20 . who ( 9 ) Titanian , like to Titan , Lat . Gr . from the Heb . i . e . Earth or Mud . The Fable is thus , Titan was the Elder Bro- ther who is faid to have made War on JovE ; Chap ...
... these Rebels ; the Holy Angels . See Pfalm ciii . 20 . who ( 9 ) Titanian , like to Titan , Lat . Gr . from the Heb . i . e . Earth or Mud . The Fable is thus , Titan was the Elder Bro- ther who is faid to have made War on JovE ; Chap ...
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... These two were the chief of the Giants . In the War with the Gods they heaped Mountains upon Mountains , and battered Heaven with huge Rocks ted and Islands plucked out of the Sea : Jupiter truck him with Thunder bolts and laid him ...
... These two were the chief of the Giants . In the War with the Gods they heaped Mountains upon Mountains , and battered Heaven with huge Rocks ted and Islands plucked out of the Sea : Jupiter truck him with Thunder bolts and laid him ...
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... these useful Dif . coveries he was imprifoned five Years by the Inquifition , con- demned by Pope Urban VIII . forced to recantat 60 , and died at 78 Years of Age , A. D. 1642 . But that firft Invention wasowing to Roger Bacon , Fellow ...
... these useful Dif . coveries he was imprifoned five Years by the Inquifition , con- demned by Pope Urban VIII . forced to recantat 60 , and died at 78 Years of Age , A. D. 1642 . But that firft Invention wasowing to Roger Bacon , Fellow ...
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... These Sources the Ethio- pians call Abain and Saccabela , i . e . The Father of the Waters . The old Inhabitants worshipped the Nile , Pharaoh paid his Devo- tions to it every Morning ; and there Mofes addreffed him to fre- quently ...
... These Sources the Ethio- pians call Abain and Saccabela , i . e . The Father of the Waters . The old Inhabitants worshipped the Nile , Pharaoh paid his Devo- tions to it every Morning ; and there Mofes addreffed him to fre- quently ...
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Page 139 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 239 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 242 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 304 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 244 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 361 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 397 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 338 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 240 - And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Page 397 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.