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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... Hell " ( 70 [ 94 ] ) , but he steadfastly rejects the notion that the Devil has yet been confined to that hell . In a poetic flight of his own , Defoe draws analogies between Satan's hell and images in Christopher Marlowe's ( 1564–1593 ) ...
... Hell " ( 70 [ 94 ] ) , but he steadfastly rejects the notion that the Devil has yet been confined to that hell . In a poetic flight of his own , Defoe draws analogies between Satan's hell and images in Christopher Marlowe's ( 1564–1593 ) ...
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... ( Hell ) as a Prison , he could then have no Business here ; and if we pretend to describe Hell , as not a Prison , but that the Devil has Liberty to be there , or not be there as he pleased , then he would certainly never be there , or Hell ...
... ( Hell ) as a Prison , he could then have no Business here ; and if we pretend to describe Hell , as not a Prison , but that the Devil has Liberty to be there , or not be there as he pleased , then he would certainly never be there , or Hell ...
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... Hell Receive thy new Possessor : One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time . The mind is its own place , and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . Paradise Lost 1 : 251-56 Quoting Sir Thomas Browne ...
... Hell Receive thy new Possessor : One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time . The mind is its own place , and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . Paradise Lost 1 : 251-56 Quoting Sir Thomas Browne ...
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