 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...means of directing it to my favorite subjects Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious, both to my natural powers, and to the progress... | |
 | England - 1830 - 1024 pages
...which, without oneexception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upon us. " Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolute," the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which could occupy... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - London (England) - 1821 - 348 pages
...means of directing it to my favourite subjects, ' Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, fore-knowledge, absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost'." From this preposterous pursuit he was called, at least for a considerable time, by an accidental acquaintance... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...retired, 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 they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...retired, : 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 they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory'... | |
 | American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...mouths of " angels fallen," who, apart from their more active fellows, " sat on a hill retired," " and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute. And found no end in wandering mazes lost. * * * * Vain wisdom all and false philosophy." These schools of philosophy, of which the immortal bard... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 830 pages
...subject of interminable discussion to the spirits of Pandemonium ; where " ' Others apart sat on a bill retired. In thoughts more elevate and reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixt fate, free-will, foreknowledge abnoliite, Aud found no cud, iu wandering mazes lost.' " But... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pages
...employment of the lost and afflicted spirits in Pandemonium. O.-lt n :. ; ....i.; .. .. . Others apart sat on a hill retired, 'In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high . \.i Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 576 pages
...and which might well have deterred him from the farther prosecution of the subject : " Others apart sat on a hill 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." We are... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 590 pages
...retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate j Fix'd Fate, Free- Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." We are next introduced to another topic, which, strange to say, seems to have as little connection... | |
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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. 
