 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
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 458 pages
...endless punishment — ' Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thought more elevate ; and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.' " In connection with this branch of the question may be... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 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 ma2es lost. Book ii. Line 555. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - American literature - 1869 - 630 pages
...school-room during the fading twilight hours, and, like Milton's fallen angels, — " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute Of happiness and final misery." which he carried us ; and the Calvinism of the old Great tragedian... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1870 - 530 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, in... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...metaphysical discussion, when they " sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute." As specimens we quote the following : " The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The fox condemns the trap,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 468 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. which are foreseen is necessary... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 616 pages
...mysteries which bewildered Milton's fallen angels, their interminable puzzlings and rotatory reasonings " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," Who " found no end in wandering mazes lost." Wesley had a plain right to limit himself to the Scriptural... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1871 - 400 pages
...we can find better employment in the pulpit than Milton's fallen angels found, who " Reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate : Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." And now, my beloved brethren, allow me in conclusion, to... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1872 - 242 pages
...well-known lines of Milton recur : — " Others apart sat on a hill retired, . . . . and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Yet even here there are symptoms of a spirit from another... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Scotland - 1872 - 252 pages
...well-known lines of Milton recur : — " Others apart sat on a hill retired, . . . . and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Yet even here there are symptoms of a spirit from another... | |
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