 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...various feats of war and agility, " Sat on a hill, retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argu'd then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Evans - 1808 - 342 pages
...representation of Milton :— " Others apart, sat on a hillretir'd, "In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, ** Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and..." Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, " And found no end — in uandering mazei lost I" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted^... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Bible - 1810 - 504 pages
...themselves with predestination. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd. In thoughts more elevate, and rcason-d high Of Providence, Fore-Knowledge, Will and Fate ; Fix-d Fate, Free-Will, Fore-Knowledge absolute, But found no end, in waud'ring- mazes lost?" B. ii. 1. 557. " Speculations," says a judicious writer,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...words that describe it. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix*d fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost. Sir Richard Steele assisted in this paper. T. " * The dying... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...fire." If we may credit Milton, the devils had some knowledge of this ; for he says, They reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; An'd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Providence neither promised nor afforded them perpetual... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...metaphorical sublime. " Others apart sat an a hill retired, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate'..." Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute." NOTE (H h), P. 397. In the effect of this superiority of stature, there seems to be something specifically... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol. III. I Those who, notwithstanding the opinion... | |
 | Samuel Charters - Bashfulness - 1815 - 110 pages
...himself in the clouds of beau ideal, and the metaphysics of Kant, and of Milton's devils, Who reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no rest, in endless mazes lost. . i He sometimes thinks of anchorites, and reads the lives... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N" 115. TUESDAY, JANUARYS, 1709-10. -Nmmm inlervenit vitivm... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 pages
...the power of moral principles in determining the volitions of a moral agent. Instead of ' Reasoning high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge, absolute, And find no end in wandering mazes lost, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ;' Let us endeavour... | |
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Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, as we passed through echoing grove, by fairy stream or waterfall, gleaming in the summer moonlight! He lamented that Wordsworth was not prone enough to believe in the traditional superstitions of the place,... 
