The Political History of the DevilAMS Press, 2003 - 605 Seiten First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world. |
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... business in the affairs of men , his place of residence and activity , and his great business , identifying his agents who help in that business ( 150 [ 214 ] ) . Defoe has abandoned the chronicles of history for a farrago of modern ...
... business in the affairs of men , his place of residence and activity , and his great business , identifying his agents who help in that business ( 150 [ 214 ] ) . Defoe has abandoned the chronicles of history for a farrago of modern ...
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... Business carried on by the Instrumentality of Fools ; that he may make Mankind Agents in their own Destruction , and that he may have all his Work done in such a Manner as that he may seem to have no Hand in it ; nay he contrives so ...
... Business carried on by the Instrumentality of Fools ; that he may make Mankind Agents in their own Destruction , and that he may have all his Work done in such a Manner as that he may seem to have no Hand in it ; nay he contrives so ...
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... Business the Messenger is to do what it will , they are sufficently qualified ; for this is a Particular to Satan's Messengers or Agents , that they are not like us humane Devils here in the World , some bred up one Way , some another ...
... Business the Messenger is to do what it will , they are sufficently qualified ; for this is a Particular to Satan's Messengers or Agents , that they are not like us humane Devils here in the World , some bred up one Way , some another ...
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List of Illustrations | xi |
Headnote | xix |
Notes to Headnote | lxxv |
Urheberrecht | |
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