 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.  My Schools and Schoolmasters, Or, The Story of My Education - Page 163by Hugh Miller - 1854 - 537 pagesFull view - About this book
 | C. Palfrey - 1840 - 754 pages
...strikingly of certain other speculations, noticed in an oft-quoted passage :— " 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 ahsolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1840 - 484 pages
...should be cast away (1 Cor. ix. 27), grace cannot be indefectible. But all this is a deep mystery. Fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. MILTON, Par. Lost, b. ii. 1. 556. Yet the same poet, though a reputed Calvinist, says, absolutely —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 304 pages
...God, dependent upon his constructor for all the powers of action which he pos* " Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Andftrundno end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Rogers - 1846 - 210 pages
...of the rebel angels betook themselves to one employment, and some to another. ' Others, apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned...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... | |
 | 1847 - 672 pages
...retired, 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.' " I object to the statement, that the number of the saved cannot be increased ; that all cannot be... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 458 pages
...indication of his poetic and metaphysical genius together, and was written in his sixteenth year. Ed.] Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both to my natural powers, and to the progress... | |
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