| English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, .• Fixt fete, freewill, foreknowledge... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - Unitarianism - 1805 - 338 pages
...his inhabitants of Pandsemonium, who reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. But the instances of the two memorable characters you have produced are much to our purpose, in so... | |
| John Evans - Religions - 1807 - 344 pages
...thoughts more elevate, ainl reasonid high, " Of provktance, fore-knowledge, will, and fate; " Fix'd fate; free-will, foreknowledge absolute, " And found no end — in wandering mazes lost !" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted wisdom, the subject must appear dark, and in many... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 3? ixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.* In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are as it were chequered with truth and... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...knowledge of this ; for he says, They reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; An'd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Providence neither promised nor afforded them perpetual support; To free-will they were left, in. free-will... | |
| Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...thought of Milton, who introduces the devils as tormenting their souls with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol.... | |
| John Herman Merivale - English literature - 1814 - 168 pages
...p. 240. J The reader will immediately call to mind the occupation of the fallen angels in Milton — Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N" 115. TUESDAY, JANUARYS, 1709-10. -Nmmm inlervenit vitivm et calamitas, Ut neque spectari, neque... | |
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