 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...retired. In thougliu more elevate, and reswn'rt hiuh Of providence, ftyekaowMge, ViUi *Pd f***> Piit 42 In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are as it were checkered with truth and... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1843 - 406 pages
...the faith of others; or, if confirmed in their incredulity, might have taken the leisure to com1 " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1844 - 304 pages
...personal, 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...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Andftrundno end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make... | |
 | William Mitchell - 1844 - 128 pages
...enter into conversation with me. For I soon found the means of directing it to my favorite subjects Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. a Metaphysics and psychology have long been my hobby-horse." (Literary Biography, p. 238, 254.) In... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 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...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, AnA found no end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men... | |
 | 546 pages
...kindred topics, they thought and debated till their minds were all perplexity and confusion. " They reasoned high , Of Providence, foreknowledge, will,...foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in -wandering maaes lost." This coincidence, I presume, will not require from me any justification of my choice of... | |
 | James Godkin - 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, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." I remember I was, for... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1845 - 846 pages
...striking is the employment assigned by Milton to a part of the fallen anaclt! Paradise Lost, ii. 557. &c. Others apart sat on a hill retired. In thoughts more elevate, and reatnn'd ttigk Of Providence, Fore-knowledge. Will, and Fate, Fix'd-fatc. Free-will, Fore-knowledge... | |
 | George Rogers - 1846 - 210 pages
...with the Deity ; some of the rebel angels betook themselves to one employment, and some to another. ' Others, apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate.' And we have plenty of the masters of logics there, Mr. Tub; Aristotle, with his sylogisros; 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. 
