paradisaic

• “That Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaic glory.”

  jaimewolf Diary Entry

• “Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock next had the privilege of enjoying the paradisaic sojourn at Queen's House, St. Ann's, as well as the four thousand pounds a year attached to the [71] right of occupying that princely residence.”

  West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

• “He sought to express sincerely his deep, real sorrow, his choking homesickness for the something which childhood seems to possess and maturity to be without; to dream himself into childlike, paradisaic joys and wake himself to faith and action once again.”

  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

• “Bob paused, and then said, with defiant decision, as if resolutely turning his back on that paradisaic picture: 22”

  VI. Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife. Book III—The Downfall

• “The idolatrous deviations from the paradisaic idea of sacrifice would thus appear as regrettable errors, which, however, would not be more difficult to explain than the general fall of the human race.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaic glory.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisaic Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream.”

  Paras. 1-19

• “Kant believed, like Rousseau, in an original paradisaic condition, in which man had lived as a happy, peaceful animal.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “It was not that paradisaic state of love and innocence, which, curiously enough, both Rousseau and the theologians seem to have imagined was the primitive state.”

  An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

• “In the dogma we have this grand assumption of a paradisaic state of perfectness in which the will of God was from the beginning perfectly known.”

  An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

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