 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervade* the whole narration of the war* of heaven fills it...believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglefted as knowledge is increafed. After the operation of immaterial agents, which cannot be explained,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...fun-beam, is material: Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the...immaterial agents, which cannot be explained, may be confidered that of allegorical perfons, which have no real exiftence. To exalt caufes into agents,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...fun-beam, is material: Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the...incongruity ; and the book, in which it is related, is, I be- , lieve, the f.ivourite of children, and gradually negiefted as knowledge is increafed. After the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...fun-beam, is material ; Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the...After the operation of immaterial agents, which cannot i>e explained, may be confidered that of allegorical perfons, which have no real exiftence. To exalt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...fun-beam, is material ; Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the war of heaven fills it with incongruity i and the book, in which it is related, is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...fun-beam, is material; Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of...immaterial agents, which cannot be explained, may be confidered that of allegorical perfons, which have no real exiftence. To exalt caufes into agents,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...is material :. Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the...incongruity ; and the book, in which it is related, is, 1 believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increafed. After the... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sun-beam, is material ; Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowess of Adam. The confusion of spirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the...children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased. After the operation of immaterial agents, which cannot be explained, may be considered that... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...fun-beam, is material: Satan is material when he is afraid of the prowefs of Adam. The confufion of fpirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of-...believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglecled as knowledge ii increafed. After the operation of immaterial agents, which cannot be explained,... | |
 | English poetry - 1797 - 846 pages
...fubject with which the human imagination ought not to have fported ; and " the confufion of fpirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of heaven, fills it with incongruity." It may be remarked, that the fewtexts of fcripture, pn which that part of Milton's plot is founded,... | |
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The confusion of spirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven, fills it with incongruity; and the book in which it is related is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased. 
