| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 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. — ' And it came to passthat the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair ; and they took them wives of... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...both of them hating 1,-iken the subject from the second verse of the filh chapter of Genesis : • And it came to pass, that the sons of ' God saw the...• lair; and they took them wives of all which they hose. » The two poets presumed that the Sons of God were angels, which opinion 1s abo entertained... | |
| 1829 - 1012 pages
...to pass, when men began L to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were horn 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 :... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 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...were 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 :... | |
| 1831 - 510 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.' ' Having more respect,' says the note in the Genevan Bible of 1599, *to their beauty, and to... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 478 pages
...have an echo from every voice ! [Exeunt the Peasantry, singing. HEAVEN AND EARTH; A MYSTERY, FOrNDED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN GENESIS, CHAP. VI. " And...were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." 1 And woman wailing for her demon lover,"— COLBRIDUB. DRAMATIS PERSONS. SAMIASA. Ax \xii;i..... | |
| Samuel Roffey Maitland - 1831 - 342 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...my soul may bless thee before I die. And Baihemath, &c.] See verse 34. and com. 36 Which were, &c.] It came to pass, that the sons of God saw the daughters...were fail, and they took them wives of all which they chose. Ge. vi. 2. and com. And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him,... | |
| 1832 - 670 pages
...came to pass, when tnen 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...were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose." Chap, vi, 1, 2. The enchanting influence of these beautiful but irreligious women, soon subverted... | |
| 1832 - 404 pages
...and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." (2 Cor. vi. 18.) Man is thus denominated : (Gen. vi. 2.) " And it came to pass, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men." The genealogy of our blessed Saviour's earthly descent recorded by St. Luke, thus concludes... | |
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