PARADISE LOST,

OR, THE

F ALL of MAN:

Thomas WITH Ayliffi
Historical, Philosophical, Critical, and
Explanatory NOTE s.

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WHERE IN
The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are

explained; the original Signification of the Names
of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what
Language derived, render'd easy and intelligible.

ALSO THE
Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd

to, historically related ; difficult Passages cleared of
their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the
Standard of the English Idiom.

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Literature, than PARADISE Lost,
as well for the Sublimity of the Subjet

and Sentiments, as the profound and extenhve Learning it is enriched with. It comprebends almost every Thing within the Extent of buman Knowledge ; but being wrote in the highest Stile of heroick Poetry, and the Thoughts, many of them exprefs'd by Figures of Grammar and Rhetoric, being full of Digressions and Sentences tranfpofed, as well as difficult Terms in the Mathematicks, History, Astronomy, Astrology, Geography, Architecture, Navigation, Anatomy, Alchymy, Divinity, and all other human Arts and Sciences, it bath jo happened, that many

Readers have been unable to see the Beauties of the Poem, for want of being able to come at the proper Explication of those things, which have been out of their Reach; and this must happen to a great many; for how few are there who have had A 2

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