 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - Страниц: 776
...• CHAOS. A rude and shapeless mass of matter, and confused assemblage of inactive elements which, as the poets suppose, pre-existed the formation of...power of a superior being. This doctrine was first advanced by Hesiod, from whom the succeeding poets have copied it ; and it is probable that it was... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - Страниц: 738
...Chaunting. CHAOS. A rude and shapele&s mass of matter, and confused assemblage of inactive elements which, as the poets suppose, pre-existed the formation of...power of a superior being. This doctrine was first advanced by Hesiod, from whom the succeeding poets have copied it ; and it is probable that it was... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1860 - Страниц: 896
...Chanting. CHAOS. A rude and shapeless mass of matter, and confused assemblage of inactive elements which, as the poets suppose, pre-existed the formation of...power of a superior being. This doctrine was first advanced by Hesiod. from whom the succeeding poets have copied it ; and it is probable that it was... | |
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CHAOS, a rude and shapeless mass of matter, and confused assemblage of inactive elements, wliich, as the poets suppose, pre-existed the formation of the world, and from which the universe was formed by the hand and power of a superior being. This doctrine... 
