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... Blackwood's Magazine - Pàgina 2341830Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1773 - 700 pàgines
...sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describes— • . : '* Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 1 ' Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day... | |
| 1773 - 682 pàgines
...sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describee — . • . I " Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day differ... | |
| 1827 - 496 pàgines
...angels fallen," who, apart from their more active fellows, " sat on a hill retired," " and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will foreknowledge absolute. And found no end in wandering mazes lost. * * * * Vain wisdom all and false philosophy." These schools... | |
| 1827 - 294 pàgines
...charms the sense,) 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, 562 Of happiness... | |
| John Bayly Sommers Carwithen - 1829 - 558 pàgines
...nion was allowed by the church of Rome, must be reckoned those abstruse and inexplicable questions, Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute : questions on which speculation too frequently ends in distraction and scepticism ; and discussion,... | |
| 1830 - 1034 pàgines
...destination, which, without one exception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upou us, " Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolut«," the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which... | |
| 1830 - 986 pàgines
...many wise heads have been shaken in the drawing-room, the library, and the college, at the mention of " Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ;" and many an allusion to the diabolic nature of such inquiries has alarmed and perplexed the young... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1832 - 232 pàgines
...rest, and long may it be ere he lies in its stillness. VOL. II.— 9 METAPHYSICS. ' and reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1834 - 344 pàgines
...the discussion of them has given rise to endless controversies ; and that they who have Reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Have found no end, in wandering mazes lost. (5.) It cannot be denied that one reason why the epistles... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 422 pàgines
...many wise heads have been shaken in the drawing-room, the library, and the college, at the mention of " Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; " and many an allusion to the diabolic nature of such inquiries has alarmed and perplexed the young... | |
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