 Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain .unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 45by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge: they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge...on their fault, Which had no less proved certain, unforeknovvn. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 622 pages
...over-ruled Their will, disposed hy ahsolute deeree 115 Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves deereed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fanlt, Which had no less proved certain unforcknownSo without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...dispos'd by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not 1 : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their...unforeknown. So, without least impulse, or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all Both what they judge,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...over-ruFd Their will, disposed by absolute decree us Or high foreknowledge : they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...over-ruled " Their will, disposed by absolute decree 115 " Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed " Their own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, " Foreknowledge...all, " Both what they judge and what they choose; for so " I formed them free, and free they must remain, " Till they enthral themselves : I else must change... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree 115 Or high foreknowledge: they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...all Both what they judge, and what they choose ; for so I formed them free ; and free they must remain, make them chaste, that came not thither so: such... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 620 pages
...over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree 119 Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge...influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain uii fore known. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 128 Or aujrht by me immutably foreseen,... | |
 | William Henry Dawnay (Viscount Downe.) - English language - 1857 - 182 pages
...Sometimes the pluperfect indicative is used for the pluperfect subjunctive, especially in poetry j as,— " Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain, unforeknown." Par. Lost, bk. iii. 118. " I am about to tell thee."—Troilus and Cressida, act i. so. 1. " Sir, I... | |
 | John Martin - Bible - 1858 - 482 pages
...predestination over-rul'd Then* will dispos'd by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...merita nec morte peritili; Sed minera ante dlein."—Mn. IT. SSS. « So abo Milton, [PL iü. 117.] " If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no Influence on their fault. Which had no lus proved certain unforeseen.' 20 tion, that the Prescience of God does not extend to all future contingencies... | |
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