| Sharon Turner - 1807 - 498 páginas
...periphrasis occupies fourteen, and in so many lines only conveys three ideas ; and all that 3 BO OK the eighteen lines express is simply the first verse...Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and " the earth." No Saxon poem can be inspected without the periphrasis being found to be the leading... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - 1823 - 398 páginas
...periphrasis : The earth for the children of men — The middle region — The ground for men — Out of eighteen lines, the periphrasis occupies fourteen...Genesis : " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."' It may, however, be questioned whether the term periphrasis justly expresses the sort... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1827 - 312 páginas
...universal Creator moving on the waters, is similar to, and probably borrowed from, the sublime opening of the book of Genesis. " In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth ; and the earth was void and waste; and dai'kness was on the face of the deep. And the... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1839 - 696 páginas
...— Eternal Lord ! — Holy Creator ! The Guardian of Mankind, The Eternal Lord — Almighty Ruler I THREE more of the lines are used for the periphrasis...Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." No Saxon poem can be inspected without the periphrasis being found to be the leading... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1841 - 636 páginas
...In these eighteen lines the verbal rhythm and periphrasis of the style are evident Eight lines arc occupied by so many phrases to express the Deity....Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." No Saxon poem can be inspected without the periphrasis being found to be the leading... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1841 - 636 páginas
...of his works !— Eternal Lord !— Holy Creator! The Guardian of Mankind, The Eternal LordAlmighty Ruler! Three more of the lines are used for the periphrasis...Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." No Saxon poem can be inspected without the periphrasis being found to be the leading... | |
| 1859 - 720 páginas
...experiences of the individual breast. No better Formula of the true Theistic Philosophy need be given than the first verse of the Book of Genesis, " In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." Here we have at a glance the Infinite and the Finite—God, the world, (including man,)... | |
| William Edward Addis - 1872 - 880 páginas
...— Uncreated Matter. Orthodox Christendom maintains that matter was created, and pins its faith to the first verse of the book of Genesis : " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In the beginning ! Ponder these words, and mark the extraordinary deduction forced... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1886 - 684 páginas
...the periphrasis of the first making the world : THREE more lines are employed to express the CHAP. earth as often by a periphrasis : | The earth for...Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." No Saxon poem can be inspected without the periphrasis being found to be the leading... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1887 - 606 páginas
...exist ; produced ; generated."* This is the sense in which the word is used in the English version of the first verse of the book of Genesis : " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth " ; and whatever may be said about the source from which Moses derived his knowledge... | |
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