 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1847 - 744 pages
...knowledge of divine truth. When these casuists, though of more than mortal grasp of thought ' reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.' The opinions complained of, however erroneous, are of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 572 pages
...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan - Sermons, American - 1848 - 420 pages
...which mortal man is so often and so sadly perplexed as on this ? Multitudes have %' " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, indeed, is the intrinsic abstruseness of theology,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...their place of punishment, " 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." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...sad and fatal errand to this world, some of his compeers " sat on a hill retired, and reasoned high of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," — we can hardly conceive of Moloch joining the band. The topics were too abstruse and too theoretical... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...their place of punishment, " 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." All science proceeds from one generalization to another,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of "Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...related to have been found baffling in another sphere — where more potent intelligences 1 reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; (Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy !) And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Let us contrast... | |
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