 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
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...not such a spirit bring with it its punishment ? We darken "counsel by words without knowledge.' * Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fata, First fate, free will, fore-knowledge... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 564 pages
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 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of "Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...which are related to have been found baffling in another sphere — where more potent intelligences 1 reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; (Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy !) And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Let us contrast... | |
 | Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of 'Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason?... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...human spoculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of ' Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | William Clarkson - Christianity and other religions - 1851 - 370 pages
...discourse on such subjects as Milton describes as forming the converse of his " grand infernal peers." " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and rcason'd high Of prudence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1851 - 344 pages
...wonderful that the discussion of them has given rise to endless controversies; and that they who have Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Have found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Reasoned high (5.) It cannot be denied that ane reason... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...Of providenee, foreknowledge, will, and fate;r Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute : 5t° And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil mueh they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame; Vain... | |
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