 Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.  The fatalists; or, Records of 1814 and 1815 - Page 38by Mrs. Kelly - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 pages
...his inhabitants of Pandsemonium, who reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. But the instances of the two memorable characters you have produced are much to our purpose, in so... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 344 pages
...thoughts more elevate, ainl reasonid high, " Of provktance, fore-knowledge, will, and fate; " Fix'd fate; free-will, foreknowledge absolute, " And found no end — in wandering mazes lost !" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted wisdom, the subject must appear dark, and in many... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 3? ixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.* In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are as it were chequered with truth and... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...knowledge of this ; for he says, They reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; An'd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Providence neither promised nor afforded them perpetual support; To free-will they were left, in. free-will... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol. III. I Those who, notwithstanding the opinion of Milton, still think it possible to obtain... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 pages
...discussing metaphyscis. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, , In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had last wills and testaments been then, he might have given these to construe. Not that they might... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N" 115. TUESDAY, JANUARYS, 1709-10. -Nmmm inlervenit vitivm et calamitas, Ut neque spectari, neque... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 442 pages
...Milton, is above the comprehension even of the angels themselves. « They reason'd high, of knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost." We reached Ballymena, which is nearly twenty-eight miles from Belfast, about... | |
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