 | 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,... | |
 | 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...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both to my natural powers, and to the progress... | |
 | 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...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both to my natural powers, and to the progress... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost : 560 Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness ; and final misery, Passion and apathy,... | |
 | 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,...absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, indeed, is the intrinsic abstruseness of theology, that, when large denominations profess to... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 560 And found no end, 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,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...heaven, who, in their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another, and must therefore end at a point, in a science... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...heaven, who, in their place of punishment, " apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All science proceeds from one generalization to another, and must therefore end at a point, in a science... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
