 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 pages
...Milton, who introduces the devils as tormenting their souls with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...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
...earth, Milton occupies the fallen angels n his absence, with discussing metaphyscis. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, , In thoughts more elevate, and...free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had last wills and testaments been then, he might have given these to construe.... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 442 pages
...Milton, is above the comprehension even of the angels themselves. « They reason'd high, of knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost." We reached Ballymena, which is nearly twenty-eight miles from Belfast, about... | |
 | Mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 872 pages
...terrors. CHAPCHAPTER III. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned higli Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed...freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. MILTON. MAJOR Blandford, who with the other officers of a neighbouring garrison-town,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 pages
...anti-christ of revelation." " Of good and evil much they argued then, — Of happiness and final misery ; Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate ; Fixed...free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." All this has sprung from the existing order of things. Had there been no... | |
 | 1825 - 830 pages
...subject of interminable discussion to the spirits of Pandemonium ; where " ' Others apart sat on a bill retired. In thoughts more elevate and reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixt fate, free-will, foreknowledge abnoliite, Aud found no cud, iu wandering mazes lost.' " But... | |
 | 1826 - 576 pages
...which might well have deterred him from the farther prosecution of the subject : " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate ; Fix'd Fate, Free-Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." We are... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...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 reasoned...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may. Shaluptari. 704 MEA Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering males lost. Milton. How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 pages
...seated on Mount Kailasa, and discussing the abstrusest topics of Hindu theology : — " And reasoning high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute. Of good and evil much they argue, then Of misery and final happiness." Occasionally, however, a quarrel... | |
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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. 
