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The Milton Encyclopedia deals effortless and speedy entry to a wealth of knowledge approximately Milton. it's going to function a basic and accomplished reference instrument for common readers, scholars, and students alike, bettering the adventure of examining Milton. Articles hide every one poem and prose paintings by way of Milton; the lifetime of Milton and the participants of his kinfolk; all occasions and all modern and old figures pointed out considerably in his writings; each booklet of the Bible in its relation to Milton's personal paintings; printers, booksellers, and publishing heritage; the serious and editorial traditions; illustrators; and people whose personal writing used to be formed by way of Milton's impact.

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In The Readie and Easie Way, the impending royalist regime consists of “tigers of Bacchus,” embodiments of excess and violence. Stephen M. Buhler Baillie, Robert Bachiler, John (d. 1674). Clergyman. A. A. 1639). Under the Ordinance for the Regulation of Printing of 1643 he was appointed a licenser of new books. Thomas Edwards perceived him to be too permissive toward heterodox opinions and advocates of toleration. Indeed, Edwards called Bachiler “Licenser-Generall of the Sectaries Books . . who hath been a Man-midwife to bring forth more monsters begotten by the Divell” (Gangraena, 1646).

Later, after a conversion experience, he became a Christian. Ordained in 391, back in Africa, he became full bishop of Hippo in 396. Augustine wrote his famous Confessions over the turn of the century, and from the second decade of the new century he fell into dispute with Pelagius, a British monk who had suggested the perfectibility of humankind, thus effectively denying original sin and minimizing the role of grace. To this period belong Augustine’s great works On the City of God and On the Trinity.

Astarte is identified with the chief Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the “At a Vacation Exercise in the College” Sumerian Inanna. In these manifestations her consort is Thammuz, who follows directly behind her in Paradise Lost. Eric C. Brown Asmodeus [Asmadai]. A demon. In the Book of Tobit of the Apocrypha, Asmodeus (literally “destroyer”) prevents seven successive bridegrooms from consummating their marriage to Sarah, his beloved, by slaying them on their wedding nights. With instruction from the angel Raphael, her kinsman Tobias succeeds in driving Asmodeus off by burning the innards of a fish.

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