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Isaac Newton Eighteenth Century
2,820 wordsNewton, pure Intelligence, whom God 'To Mortals lent, to trace his boundless Works From laws sublimely simple. 'The Seasons: Summer, 1727 'The words of Scottish poet, James Thomson are a small sample of the myriad lines of praise bestowed on the most eulogized figure in scientific history. Thomson is being far from inaccurate in identifying Sir Isaac Newton as a figure often linked more closely with God than man. Indeed, a Whiggish view of history may well place Newton (sitting beneath an apple ...
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Adam And Eve Garden Of Eden
900 wordsAnalysis of the poem: Genesis, by Bruce Dawe Bruce Dawe, an Australian poet, has written the poem Genesis. The poem compares the beginning of school to Adam and Eves expulsion from the Garden of Eden, hence the title Genesis. Dawe has put the context of the poem into a modern day theme. Using the comparison of Adam and Eves loss of innocence, he describes how the innocence of children is lost at school. This correspondence to the story of God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden becaus...
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