In the Beginning" can modify the verb "taught" as easily as it can the verb "rose." It can either verb assume, just as Milton's angels can "either Sex assume."

最初“还可修饰动词“宣讲“,也可修饰动词“生出“，它可修饰任意一个动词，正如弥尔顿笔下的天使可以“化男作女“

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Complaints about matters relating to sex or violence rose two per cent on last year - 22% and 13% respectively.

BBC: Robinson dig tops TV complaints

While the focus of his enquiries stays centred on reading not just the classics but newspapers, penny dreadfuls and sex manuals too, Mr Rose also takes in films, amateur dramatics and art shows anything, in fact, to which people without formal education or money went to stretch their minds.

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Or make widely available pheromone-laced perfumes that turn geeks into sex magnets and make zoo cages smell like rose gardens?

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