 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1894 - 1074 pages
...consumed by those myriads of men on every continent who have imitated the fallen angels in reasoning high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost, and while the Puritans who exiled themselves to America... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1977 - 758 pages
...mitigate their torments : 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...make his crossings seem like errors and puzzles, as when the philosophers in Pandemonium reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute And found no end, in wandering mazes lost [PL 2.553-56] and the scheme momentarily feels like a maze... | |
 | Elihu Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, A. G. Oppenheimer - Law - 1998 - 754 pages
...motives to crime as a matter of metaphysics — of sitting as did the fallen angels reasoning high of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate. Fixed fate, free will foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.1"' 75. The resounding point from these eloquent passages... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...for war-games. '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' (Book II, 567-71). That hellish seminar may warn us against... | |
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