 Others apart sat on a hill retired, 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.  Another stroll, being the third, of W.C.S. and his alter idem friend P.P. - Page 25by sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1823 - 442 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." VOL. III. No. 115. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1709-10. — Novum inlervenit... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." VoL. III. No. 115. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1709-10. — Nbvum intervenit... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 410 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N°115. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1709-10. -Novum intenenit vitium et calamitas,... | |
 | Henry Horne - Essays - 1823 - 266 pages
...where the demons are represented dispersed in picturesque parties, playing the devil in earnest : * Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high.' " This is the Bank of England, which our old ladies, who deposit their hoards there, emphatically call... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 332 pages
...words that describe it. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason 1 d high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate,...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute. And found no eud, in wandering mazes lost. NM15. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1709-10. Novam intervenit vitium et calamitas,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them : Others apart sat on a hill retir"d, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fist fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.* In our present... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them : Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost*. In our present... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...horror and melancholy he has. so judiciously mingled with them ! Others apart sat on a hill retir'd , In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost^. In our present... | |
 | E. Barton - Ireland - 1823 - 254 pages
...will not plunge into the depth, to which such an accusation calls me. I will abstain from reasonings high, Of Providence, foreknowledge. will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute. We have learned from Milton, what disputants such inquiries might best suit ; and that those who so... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1823 - 836 pages
...angel's mighty thought unequal to the task ; and make even these su- ' pcrior spirits when reasoning high, " Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute ;" To find—" No end in wandering mazes lost." These perplexing questions of " fixed fate, free-will,"... | |
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