 | 1773 - 700 pages
...Pelion, and sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describes— • . : '* Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 1 ' Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day differ from those of another age and another... | |
 | 1773 - 682 pages
...Pelion, and sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describee — . • . I " Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day differ from those of another age and another day.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...as we state it, half a dozen bulls one upon another." This sentence reminds one of Milton's " Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." It is a good remark concerning texts, of which sermons at that time were in a great measure composed,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 468 pages
...as we state it, half a dozen bulls one upon another." This sentence reminds one of Milton's " Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lust." It is a good remark concerning texts, of which sermons at that time were in a great measure... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 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.... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 pages
...new world, our earth, Milton occupies the fallen angels n his absence, with discussing metaphyscis. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, , In thoughts...providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had last wills and testaments... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...retired In thoughts more elevate, and reagon'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix d fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.' Mr. M. we find, has remarked the singular coincidence in his notes. After a theological exposition... | |
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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. 
