 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...which are related to have been found baffling in another sphere — where more potent intelligences ' 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... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...Synod of Dort, battled it over in rain ; when, like the fallen Angels in Pandemonium, they 'reaeon'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes loot.1 Locke on the Human Understanding, is not commonly dfenied... | |
 | John McVickar - Anglican Communion - 1838 - 564 pages
...which Milton, evidently with a view to their condemnation, puts into the mouth of fallen angels. ' Others apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more elevate ; and rcason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate — Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...sequence, operating principle in the cause. In the language of the great author of Paradise Lost, — " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...Fixed fate, free will, — foreknowledge, absolute ; And found no end, — in wandering mazes lost. Professor Thos. Brown, Playfair, and Chalmers, (only... | |
 | Oxford (Ohio) - 1839 - 438 pages
...foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then,...happiness, and final misery, Passion, and apathy, glory, and shame : Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ; Yet with a pleasing sorcery, could charm... | |
 | C. Palfrey - Liberalism (Religion) - 1840 - 754 pages
...dogmas remind one strikingly of certain other speculations, noticed in an oft-quoted passage :— " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge ahsolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and... | |
 | William Gresley - Preaching - 1840 - 414 pages
...gender strife. Such are the topics which Milton represents the fallen angels as discussing — they " Reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost 2." The end of such discussions is too commonly to unsettle... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1840 - 462 pages
...who have gone before you, " And now apart sit on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end in wandering mazes lost." Next to that of being called is the step of our being justified,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — 560 Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good...final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame ; 565 Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ! Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm Pain for a... | |
 | 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,... | |
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