 | Voltaire - 1824 - 446 pages
...themselves to our weakness, and condescending to speak in the language of the vulgar, say figuratively, that " the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that...were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."* But the angel Raphael, the conductor of young Tobit, gives him a reason more worthy of his... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...professedly only a sketch, and one part alone of it was written. It is said, in the title-page, to be founded on the following passage in Genesis, chap. vi. —...were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.' The scene is laid in a district in the neighbourhood of Mount Ararat, and the time at which... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1825 - 472 pages
...came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 1016 pages
...THE LAMENT OF TASSO. Advertisement. 619 THE LAMENT OF TASSO 52 i HEAVEN AND EARTH. A MYSTERY. FOUNDED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN GENESIS, CHAP. VI. • And it came to pass . . . that iln. sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...be with him ! Cain. Bnt with me .' - [Errant. HEAVEN AND EARTH, A MYSTERY. "And it came to nue .... that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose." — Gen. VI. 1. 2. "And woman wailing for her demon-lover." COUEIDGE. DRAMATIS PERSONNE. ANGELS.... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...pass, when _¿\_ men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, 2 heir little ones like a flock, and their children...They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at th chose. t 3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh :... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 242 pages
...came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose."* These expressions the most respectable and judicious interpreters explain, as descriptive... | |
 | 1828 - 560 pages
...had done its best. Thus it is that we only turn over four leaves in the Bible before we are informed that " the sons of God saw the daughters of men that...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose." Here then, it seems, match-making began. worth was Mr. Harland, of Sutton Hall, in Yorkshire,... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...to pass, when men began to mul. tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them; that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose ; there were giants in the earth in those days, the same became mighty men, which were of old... | |
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AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 
