 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 pages
...and to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it * Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate,...high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, Anil found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. No. 116.]... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 722 pages
...great Poet in saying, — They reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, — Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. As for our ingenious and speculative author, when he professes that he sees no difficulty in reconciling... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1837 - 204 pages
...retir'd, 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." The mist of uncertainty, nevertheless, still clings around these questions as much as ever. I choose... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | 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,...will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes loot.1 Locke on the Human Understanding, is not commonly dfenied a very simple 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... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...retir'd, 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 396 pages
...of directing it to my favourite subjects— • Of Providence, fore-kuowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost," t The upper boys of the school selected for the University ar« so termed, though wearing the same... | |
 | John McVickar - Anglican Communion - 1838 - 564 pages
...In thoughts more elevate ; and rcason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate — Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.' But there is much reason to doubt the justice of such condemnation.... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...principle in the cause ; reminding us of the lines of the great author of Paradise Lost — " Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate,...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Professors Thomas Brown and Playfair, and Dr Chalmers, Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh,... | |
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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. 
