 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, witty and the fair annoys. fet wit ne'er anil apalhy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : Yet, with a pleasing sorcery,... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...experience, by having gotten so often involved in painful, thorny speculations in hell. There they reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. We hardly know whether it be easier or more common to speculate... | |
 | Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...experience, by having gotten so often involved in painful, thorny speculations in hell. There they reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ahBolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. We hardly know whether it be easier or more common... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...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 linal misery , Passion and apathy , and glory and shame ; Vain wisdom all , and false philosophy :... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1843 - 406 pages
...the faith of others; or, if confirmed in their incredulity, might have taken the leisure to com1 " 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 - 1843 - 444 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, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1843 - 538 pages
...hav& gone before you, • And now apart sit on a hill retired. In thought* more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ab*olute, And find no end in wandering mazes lofcl." Next to that of being called is the step of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1844 - 304 pages
...personal, mechanical God, dependent upon his constructor for all the powers of action which he pos* " Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Andftrundno end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting... | |
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