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Page 105
It has been my principle , however , consistently with this plan , to recognise as constantly and minutely as I could the duty of ascribing to preceding commentators all that belongs to them . Wherever a comment has seemed to me ...
It has been my principle , however , consistently with this plan , to recognise as constantly and minutely as I could the duty of ascribing to preceding commentators all that belongs to them . Wherever a comment has seemed to me ...
Page 118
Todd and most of the editors print this not as an interrogation , but as a clause in continuation of the four preceding . But , in the original editions , and in all till Bishop Newton's in 1749 , there is a distinct point of ...
Todd and most of the editors print this not as an interrogation , but as a clause in continuation of the four preceding . But , in the original editions , and in all till Bishop Newton's in 1749 , there is a distinct point of ...
Page 135
“ Her stores , " i.e. Hell's ; the pronoun here preceding the noun . 181—186 . “ Each on his rock transfixed , " & c . The anticipation of some such form of increased torment in Hell had already occurred to Satan : see Book I. 325-330 .
“ Her stores , " i.e. Hell's ; the pronoun here preceding the noun . 181—186 . “ Each on his rock transfixed , " & c . The anticipation of some such form of increased torment in Hell had already occurred to Satan : see Book I. 325-330 .
Page 136
He does not speak till the subject has been discussed on different sides by three preceding speakers , and he can observe the state of feeling produced . Moloch , the fierce and defiant , has advised open war ; he is reckless of all ...
He does not speak till the subject has been discussed on different sides by three preceding speakers , and he can observe the state of feeling produced . Moloch , the fierce and defiant , has advised open war ; he is reckless of all ...
Page 146
... Chaos as preceding all Creation , and as being that out of the stuff and in the very body of which Creation , in its two then existing dominions ( Hell beneath and the Starry Universe in the centre ) , had been cut or generated .
... Chaos as preceding all Creation , and as being that out of the stuff and in the very body of which Creation , in its two then existing dominions ( Hell beneath and the Starry Universe in the centre ) , had been cut or generated .
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