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  • But in the poem we for a while have Paradisaical senses given us, which vanish when we see a man and his wife without clothes in the picture.

    On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909

  • Angelical, or Paradisaical World; (2) the dark world, the origin of fire; and (3) the external, visible world as an outbreathing or expression of the internal and spiritual worlds.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • Paradisaical dinner,” on Christmas Day, 1843, “of preserved quince and apple, dates, and bread and cheese, and milk,” though of course its simplicity was only due to the cook's absence in Boston, indicates other difficulties of housekeeping, as also do a hundred half-amusing details of the household life.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

  • The "Paradisaical dinner," on Christmas Day, 1843, "of preserved quince and apple, dates, and bread and cheese, and milk," though of course its simplicity was only due to the cook's absence in

    Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

  • Bridges are often symbolical of events, classic passages in the shastras and sutras, or are antetypes of Paradisaical structures.

    The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Readers who have visited Italy will be reminded of more than one picture by this gorgeous "vision of beauty," equally sublime and pure in its Paradisaical naturalness.

    Notes: Book First. Palgrave, Francis T Francis T. Palgrave 1875

  • Paradisaical life of the “Celestial Kingdom” only a little more incommodious, for man, but not by any means banish him out of it, and in fact are very readily to be got rid of.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Moral love to nature is thankfulness to God who gave it to us for moral enjoyment and for moral dominion; to man, as pure, God gave not an uncongenial and fear-awakening nature, but a Paradisaical nature.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Mere joy is not yet blessedness; the merely natural pleasure in existence, even were it of a Paradisaical character, is not enough to satisfy the spiritual nature of man; only that which is morally wrought, or at least morally appropriated, renders blessed.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • This Paradisaical germ of all sacrifice is, therefore, self-denial in obedience to God, a renouncing not a destroying, a giving up, out of love to the spirit, of that which is dear to the flesh; and this idea pervades all forms of sacrifice, even the emphatic sin-offering; only that which is dear to man can be to him

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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