 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
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 572 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... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason 'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 560 And...in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they aigued then. Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame ; Vain wisdom all,... | |
 | Sir James Stephen, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1848 - 356 pages
...hapless fall By doom of battle — or those with whom the moral philosopher sympathizes yet more — who Sat on a hill retired In thoughts more elevate, and...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — or expatiate over the muster-roll of their chiefs,... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan - Sermons, American - 1848 - 416 pages
...rather any theme on which mortal man is so often and so sadly perplexed as on this ? Multitudes have " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, indeed, is the intrinsic abstruseness of theology,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...for contemplation to one band of the spirits fallen from heaven, who, in their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...for contemplation to one band of the spirits fallen from heaven, who, in their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Logic - 1849 - 184 pages
...to John, or John possessing pride, in phrases of the same form as when * Others apart (other devils) sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed-fate, Free-will, Foreknowledge-absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost : Of Good... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...their leader on his sad and fatal errand to this world, some of his compeers " sat on a hill retired, and reasoned high of Providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," — we can hardly conceive of Moloch joining the band. The topics were too abstruse and too theoretical... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pages
...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 560 Ana found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and...evil much they argued then. Of happiness and final miser}', Passion and apathy, and glory and shame ; Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ! 565 Yet,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then,...Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : 565 547. Sing, £r- •' Their music is employed... | |
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