 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...metaphorical sublime. " Others apart sat on a lull retired, In thoughts more elevate, and rmstm'rf high . Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate: Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute." Note (H h.) page 307. In the effect of this superiority of stature, there seems to be something specifically... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...set them to dispute about predestination:— They reasoned high, of knowledge, will, and fate, Fired fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. PREDETERMINE, v. à. ¥òå and determine. To doom or confine by previous decree. We see in brutes... | |
 | James Lackington - 1830 - 472 pages
...Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold : " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence,...free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." But I assure you, my friend, that we were sometimes like the Galatians of old;... | |
 | William Ashmead - 1830 - 522 pages
...conceptions of Milton, that lie has made the misery of fallen spirits to consist partly in -" reasonings high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,...Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute .-" And when such was their employment, the poet need scarcely have added, that they "Found no end in wand'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; 560 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - 1831 - 450 pages
...during the absence of their chief on his perilous enterprize : 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 wand'ring mazes lost. B. ii. 557— 561. *... | |
 | John Evans - 1832 - 278 pages
...representation of Milton : — Others apart, sat on a hill rctir'd In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd...fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end — in wandering mazes lost ! 84 85 MATERIALSTS. The doctrine of Materialism respects the nature of the human... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...discourse more sweet ( For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense, ) Others apart sat on a hill retird', 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. Of good and evil much... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...vocum, 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 much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
...from revelation, might have had the modesty to lay their 1. f" Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost." FAR. Low, b. it] finger on their lip and distrust their own judgment, instead of disturbing the faith... | |
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