 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
 | 1851 - 650 pàgines
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of 'Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason?... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 pàgines
...human spoculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of ' Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 pàgines
...speculative divinity : — "Others apart sat on s hill retired, In thoughtt more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then : Of happiness and... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 pàgines
...rational, intelligent, and accountable creature. 24. I thus meditate on Revelation. I might " Reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And find no end, in wandering mazes lost :" but I will not torment myself with difficulties, from which... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - 1853 - 322 pàgines
...Paradise Lost, fancies the fallen angels engaged in discussions of this nature. They " Reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge, absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Such, too, has been the character of many human controversies.... | |
 | 1904 - 748 pàgines
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 | Martha Macdonald Lamont - 1854 - 340 pàgines
...gone. CHAPTER II. " In discourse more sweet, Others aloft, In thought more elevate, now reasoned high, Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 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 ; 560 1 Tiphcean, — see 1. 1. 199 note. 2 Alcides, — Hercules,— so called from his grandfather... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pàgines
...song 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, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pàgines
...to object to inquiries that he himself so vigorously pursued. If the fallen angels " reasoned high " "Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," it is probable they only carried on speculations to which they, as well as those " who kept their first... | |
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