 | Chemistry - 1773 - 700 pages
...upon Pelion, and sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describes— • . : '* Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 1 ' Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day differ from those of another age and another... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...as we state it, half a dozen bulls one upon another." This sentence reminds one of Milton's " Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." It is a good remark concerning texts, of which sermons at that time were in a great measure composed,... | |
 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1812 - 468 pages
...as we state it, half a dozen bulls one upon another." This sentence reminds one of Milton's " Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lust." It is a good remark concerning texts, of which sermons at that time were in a great measure... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - English literature - 1814 - 168 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, &c. There can be little doubt that our English poet was acquainted... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...retired In thoughts more elevate, and reagon'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix d fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.' Mr. M. we find, has remarked the singular coincidence in his notes. After a theological exposition... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...retired In thoughts more elevate, aud reasou'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Mr. M. we find, has remarked the singular coincidence in his Boles. After a theological exposition... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...means of directing it to my favorite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious, both to my natural powers, and to the progress... | |
 | England - 1830 - 1024 pages
...which, without oneexception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upon us. " Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolute," the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which could occupy... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - London (England) - 1821 - 348 pages
...means of directing it to my favourite subjects, ' Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, fore-knowledge, absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost'." From this preposterous pursuit he was called, at least for a considerable time, by an accidental acquaintance... | |
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Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 
