 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, i'ix'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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd falc, Or full with feeding sink into a sleep: Each household genius shows again hi Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1843 - 538 pages
...hav& gone before you, • And now apart sit on a hill retired. In thought* more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ab*olute, And find no end in wandering mazes lofcl." Next to that of being called is the step of our... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1844 - 304 pages
...mechanical God, dependent upon his constructor for all the powers of action which he pos* " Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Andftrundno end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1844 - 494 pages
...mechanical God, dependent upon his constructor for all the powers of action which he pos1 Others apart, eat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, AnA found no end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting... | |
 | William Gresley - Preaching - 1844 - 372 pages
...gender strife. Such are the topics which Milton represents the fallen angels as discussing — they "Reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost.2" The end of such discussions is too commonly to unsettle men's minds, and call forth the angry... | |
 | James Godkin - Baptist converts - 1845 - 164 pages
...the copy. With this person I had frequent disputes on metaphysical theology. Often we sat apart — " In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, Of Providence,...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." I remember I was, for argument-s sake, Agustinian, and strenuously defended predestination. My friend... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...engaged with their dispute about Liberty and Necessity, — reasoned high Of Providence, Forekuowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. In 1658 appeared in Latin what Hobbes called the Second Section of his Elements of Philosophy (JSlementorum... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...angels, whom Milton represents as reasoning high " Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." 1ц. this paper, therefore, which is intended to be a brief exposition of the nature of sin, there... | |
 | George Rogers - 1846 - 208 pages
...some of the rebel angels betook themselves to one employment, and some to another. ' Others, apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate.' And we have plenty of the masters of logic there, Mr. Tub; Aristotle, with his sylogisms; the author... | |
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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. 
