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
 | England - 1830 - 1018 pages
...which, without oneexception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upon us. " Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolute," the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which could occupy... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 340 pages
...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,...happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory1 and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : 565 Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm... | |
 | Mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 872 pages
...endeavouring, by prayer and contemplation, to lull to rest her fears, and subdue her terrors. CHAPCHAPTER III. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned higli Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 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... | |
 | Henry Horne - Essays - 1823 - 238 pages
...where the demons are represented dispersed in picturesque parties, playing the devil in earnest : * Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high.' " This is the Bank of England, which our old ladies, who deposit their hoards there,... | |
 | Henry Horne (jr) - London (England) - 1824 - 252 pages
...where the demons are represented dispersed in picturesque parties, playing the devil in earnest: ' Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high.' " This is the Bank of England, which our old ladies, who deposit their hoards there,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...mouths of " angels fallen," who, apart from their more active fellows, " sat on a hill retired," " and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will foreknowledge absolute. And found no end in wandering mazes lost. * * * * Vain wisdom all and false philosophy." These schools... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pages
...portion of the employment of the lost and afflicted spirits in Pandemonium. O.-lt n :. ; ....i.; .. .. . Others apart sat on a hill retired, 'In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high . \.i Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 830 pages
...subject of interminable discussion to the spirits of Pandemonium ; where " ' Others apart sat on a bill retired. In thoughts more elevate and reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixt fate, free-will, foreknowledge abnoliite, Aud found no cud, iu wandering mazes lost.' " But... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 pages
...is idolatrous, and your bishop, the man of sin, the horned beast, the anti-christ of revelation." " Of good and evil much they argued then, — Of happiness and final misery ; Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And... | |
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