 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2341830Full view - About this book
 | Bible - 1901 - 834 pages
...own family digging deep about the very foundations of religion. Dolson was studying those problems, " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," which every man who essays to be the religious guide of others should work out, at some time and in... | |
 | Charles Beecher - Atonement - 1864 - 384 pages
...even by theology, as " 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." Yet Christendom has neither censured nor defended this,... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - African Americans - 1865 - 32 pages
...are agitatjng metaphysical subtleties, or discoursing of literary elegancies, — / " Reasoning high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; " " Sporting with Amaryllis In the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair." You are a society... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Book ii. Line 555. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.... | |
 | American literature - 1866 - 470 pages
...been like Milton's evil angels, who sought to beguile the pains of their remorse : " Reasoning high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lobt." Thus have they been ever beating against the walls of the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...Lost, II. 557: — " Others apart tat 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." See also Par. XVII. Note 40. 70. Boethius, Cans. Pbil.,\... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...Lost, II. 557 : — " 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." See also Par. XVII. Note 40. 70. Boëthius, Cons. Phil.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 780 pages
...Lost, II. 557 : — *' Others apart sat on a hill retired, 1 n 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 tost." See also Par. XVII. Note 40. 70. Boethius, Cons, ffii!.,... | |
 | Christianity - 1867 - 532 pages
...And describes how ' 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.' Campbell is right in saying that the ' origin of evil '... | |
 | John Milton - 1868 - 440 pages
...charms the sense) 556 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 ; 560 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness... | |
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