 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.  Christian Politics - Page 158by Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 348 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N* 115. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1709-10. -IVouum intervenit vilium et calamitas.... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 pages
...hath well represented the angels themselves as thus employed : — Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence,...freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end — in wandering mazes lost! MR. RICHARDS was possessed of that good sense which led him to maintain his tenets... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favourite subjects, Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix'd...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had it been the fortune of Coleridge to have received his education in one of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1819 - 298 pages
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, free will, foreknowledge absolute, A*nd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate ; and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | 1820 - 742 pages
...slight surprise. Alter sermon the hearers frequently form themselves into little circles, and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute. Of good and evil much they argue, then Of happiness and final raiiery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense), Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate; and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. ' Others apart sat on a hill retir'J, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...free-will, fore-knowledge absolute. And found no end, in wandering mazes lost*.' r Dryden had not at this time grown into the celebrity which makes Mr. a redundancy.... | |
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