 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...  History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the ... - Page 20by Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1874 - 524 pages
...have gone before you, " And now apart sit on a hill retired. In thoughts more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end in wandering mazes lost.;j Next to that of being called is the step of our being justified,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 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 wand'ring mazes lost. Book ii. Line 555. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.... | |
 | 1875 - 797 pages
...digested by a goodly number of their hearers, and becoming a part of their being, they too " reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;" and if they " found no end," they were not " in wandering mazes lost," for, unlike the lost angels,... | |
 | 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
...their real work, and he looked with the contempt of a practical man upon the endless discussions upon problems which it was impossible for the human intellect...deliver the sentiments and inculcate the doctrines of which his disciples happened to approve. In the combat which he waged against this double danger... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 662 pages
...which. without one exception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upon us. • Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolute," the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which could occupy... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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