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... Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays - Page 300by Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Criticism - 1851 - 650 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?... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...human spoculatists 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... | |
| David Thomas - 684 pages
...speculative divinity : — "Others apart sat on s hill retired, In thoughtt 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. Of good and evil much they argued then : Of happiness and... | |
| Randolph Sinks Foster - Calvinism - 1853 - 322 pages
...Paradise Lost, fancies the fallen angels engaged in discussions of this nature. They " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge, absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, too, has been the character of many human controversies.... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 pages
...rational, intelligent, and accountable creature. 24. I thus meditate on Revelation. I might " Reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end, in wandering mazes lost :" but I will not torment myself with difficulties, from which... | |
| Martha Macdonald Lamont - 1854 - 340 pages
...gone. CHAPTER II. " In discourse more sweet, Others aloft, In thought more elevate, now reasoned high, Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
| John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...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 1 Tiphcean, — see 1. 1. 199 note. 2 Alcides, — Hercules,— so called from his grandfather... | |
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