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... Paradise Lost - Page 101by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1836 - 422 pages
...had frequent disputes on metaphysical theology. Often by the wild wood side, we sat apart — — " 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." I remember I was, for... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Education - 1836 - 422 pages
...many wise heads have been shaken in the drawing-room, the library, and the college, at the mention of " Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; " and many an allusion to the diabolic nature of such inquiries has alarmed and perplexed the young... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 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... | |
| sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836 - 182 pages
...resembling those which Milton supposes to have engrossed the revolted angels, in their confinement. " 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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 pages
...fore-knowledge; and to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it * Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, Anil found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. No. 116.]... | |
| Frederick Calder - Nationale synode to Dordrecht - 1837 - 492 pages
...fact of many of the grave Dutch statesmen frequently taking part in meetings, where the ministers " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." The opposition of the Gomarist clergy to this regulation... | |
| Joseph Jones - Devotional literature - 1837 - 362 pages
...are many things in religion which we cannot comprehend. Many accomplished minds in all ages have — "reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will...Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Milton. The counsels of the Infinite God, and the nature... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 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... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fale; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolutc... | |
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