The Political History of the DevilPhoemixx Classics Ebooks, 16.11.2021 - 555 Seiten The Political History of the Devil Daniel Defoe - The Political History of the Devil is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe.General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate.His view is that of an 18th-century Presbyterian he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers. |
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... nation's treasure , and embarking their kings and people , ( I say ) in a war above a thousand miles off , filling their heads with that religious madness , call'd , in those days , holy zeal to recover the terra sancta , the sepulchers ...
... nation's treasure , and embarking their kings and people , ( I say ) in a war above a thousand miles off , filling their heads with that religious madness , call'd , in those days , holy zeal to recover the terra sancta , the sepulchers ...
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... nations who were already his own; that would be Satan against Beelzebub, making war upon himself, and at least doing nothing to the purpose. If they should charge him, indeed, with deluding Philip II. of Spain into that preposterous ...
... nations who were already his own; that would be Satan against Beelzebub, making war upon himself, and at least doing nothing to the purpose. If they should charge him, indeed, with deluding Philip II. of Spain into that preposterous ...
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... nations to worship and adore a supreme Power ; One demonstration of the existence of the Devil , is from the avow'd ill - guided consent of some nations , who knowing no other God , make a God of the Devil , for want of a better . It ...
... nations to worship and adore a supreme Power ; One demonstration of the existence of the Devil , is from the avow'd ill - guided consent of some nations , who knowing no other God , make a God of the Devil , for want of a better . It ...
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... nations where he is spoken of; But in a word, Devil is the common name of the Devil in all the known languages of the earth. Nay, all the mischiefs he is empowered to do, are in Scripture placed to his account, under the particular ...
... nations where he is spoken of; But in a word, Devil is the common name of the Devil in all the known languages of the earth. Nay, all the mischiefs he is empowered to do, are in Scripture placed to his account, under the particular ...
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