 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
 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1844 - 494 pages
...mechanical God, dependent upon his constructor for all the powers of action which he pos1 Others apart, eat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, AnA found no end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting... | |
 | James Godkin - Baptist converts - 1845 - 164 pages
...the copy. With this person I had frequent disputes on metaphysical theology. Often we sat apart — " In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, Of Providence,...fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." I remember I was, for argument-s sake, Agustinian, and strenuously... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1845 - 846 pages
...striking is the employment assigned by Milton to a part of the fallen anaclt! Paradise Lost, ii. 557. &c. Others apart sat on a hill retired. In thoughts more elevate, and reatnn'd ttigk Of Providence, Fore-knowledge. Will, and Fate, Fix'd-fatc. Free-will, Fore-knowledge... | |
 | George Rogers - 1846 - 210 pages
...with the Deity ; some of the rebel angels betook themselves to one employment, and some to another. ' Others, apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate.' And we have plenty of the masters of logics there, Mr. Tub; Aristotle, with his sylogisros; the author... | |
 | 1846 - 324 pages
...that class, he and Bishop Bramhall, still engaged with their dispute about Liberty and Necessity, — reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will,...Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found 110 end in wandering mazes lost. In 1658 appeared in Latin what Hobbes called the Second... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 pages
...before which even Papal infallibility cowers, and is either prudently silent or cautiously guarded. ' Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute,' infallible Rome, like fallible man, like the higher fallible beings of the poet, ' Can find no end,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...before which even Papal infallibility cowers, and is either prudently silent or cautiously guarded. , ' Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute,' infallible Rome, like fallible man, like the higher fallible beings of the poet, ' Can find no end,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1847 - 744 pages
...knowledge of divine truth. When these casuists, though of more than mortal grasp of thought ' reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.' The opinions complained of, however erroneous, are of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both... | |
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 672 pages
...prepare the people for heaven, but for the companionship of devils ; for so they are employed in hell. ' 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;... | |
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