 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
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...clouded men's minds and obscured their sense of the love of God, when he set the devils arguing — Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. When he resolved to shape into a grand poem the incident... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 406 pages
...reasonable beings, with the world's sin and shame before them, could rack their brains to divine the secret Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute. Nor had he less contempt for public opinion than he had for abstract thought. There was something in... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...charms the seuse. Others apart s.it 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 waud'ring mazes lost. MILTON, Paradise Lost. — Sure. He that made us with... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1879 - 696 pages
...%pvffovv % iarpttKiroy, i,\Ai TTJS fififrtpas xpoatpea-fus. — CHEYS. ad 2 Tim. ii. 21. " Reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." MILTON, Paradise Lott, ii, " Soil ich dir die Gegend Zeigen... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - New England - 1879 - 54 pages
...system which was held by the fathers of New England. They were not indeed prepared to " Reason high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; " but they so clearly apprehended what they believed to be the truths of the Bible, " That to the... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 pages
...Lost," book ii.:— " 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." an important controversy, he is to do all he can to lessen... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 232 pages
...song charms the sense) 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... | |
 | John Randall - 1879 - 368 pages
...property of the earth was supposed to be an emanation from somo guiding star, and men— " reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge, absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost," undue estimates cf things really good in themselves were... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - Theology - 1879 - 278 pages
...wrestled with the problem of Predestination, and, like Milton's angels in Paradise, — " Reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." But this Schoolman found in Augustine, not the man above... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...song charms the sense) 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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