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Page 128 - ... in two flames, the one on one side, and the other on the other side of the axial line.
Page 487 - ... character, and worthy to be remembered with affection and admiration by all the saints of God. At the call of God he left his father's house and his native land, and became a pilgrim in a strange land. Such was his confidence in the promise of God, and such his obedience to the divine commands, that he was called the Father of the Faithful, and the friend of God.
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| Title | A Complete Commentary, with Etymological, Explanatory, Critical and Classical Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost .. |
| Author | James Paterson |
| Contributor | Friends' Free Library, Germantown, provenance |
| Publisher | proprietor, R. Walker, 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 504 pages |
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