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And then there's the audacity of Burgess in Earthly Powers:
Great First Lines Sharon Bakar 2006
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Or is it the suggestion that God has a keen personal interest in Earthly real estate?
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This conception is often referred to as the Earthly Paradise or the Isle of Youth.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Earthly is what is IN the earth; earthy, what is of the earth. sensual -- literally, "animal-like": the wisdom of the "natural" (the same Greek) man, not born again of God; "not having the Spirit" (Jude devilish -- in its origin (from "hell," Jas 3: 6; not from God, the Giver of true wisdom, Jas 1: 5), and also in its character, which accords with its origin.
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"The Queen was very much delighted with all fair flowers, and she had a garden so full of them that it was called the Earthly Paradise."
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Should seem 'twixt him, and such called Earthly Gods.
Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden Elkanah Settle 1686
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Confusingly, Big Finish are due to release an audio called The Earthly Child in which the Eighth Doctor bumps into her on 22nd century Earth and has a completely unrelated adventure, though I'll leave it someone else to rationalise that inconsistency.
feeling listless 2009
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Seriously, Maximo Park may as well have just called Our Earthly Pleasures WE ARE A SERIOUS BAND and have done with it.
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Something of rich rains and warmth in its westland meadows, or something in some lost pagan traditions about it, made it persistently regarded as a kind of Earthly Paradise.
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Marjorie declared that the place looked in its soft greenness and the clean whiteness of its shore a kind of Earthly Paradise, and indeed our hearts went out to it.
Marjorie 1898
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