 Others apart sat on a hill 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.  Christian Politics - Side 158av Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 sider
...waste their energy on barren speculations, like the amusements of Milton's fallen angels, who Apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more elevate, and...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. But we shall not offend the phrenologists by applying to them the line that follows:... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 634 sider
...energy on barren speculations, like the amusements of Milton's fallen angels, who Apart sat on a bill retired In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes bit. But we shall not offend the phrenologists by applying to them the line that follows:... | |
 | 1825 - 634 sider
...dil&cult subject, the writers of which have resembled Milton's own metaphysical angels, who " reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate,...absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost." Having referred to some of the decrees of God in the Scripture, which are put conditionally, he says,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 sider
...Milton has made metaphysics the idle sport of the fallen angels : Others apart, sate on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate ; and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Vain wisdom all, and vain philosophy. Paradise Loxt, book 2. Telcmachus (of Bishop Fenelon) Is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...thronging audienee. In diseourse more sweet (For eloquenee the soul, song eharms the sense) Others apart Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head : As awak'd from providenee, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found... | |
 | 1830 - 368 sider
...Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold : " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence,...free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." PA BADISE LOST. But I assure you, my friend, that we were sometimes like the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 sider
...the soul, song charms the sense,) 556 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; 560 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | 1826 - 576 sider
...prosecution of the subject : " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate ;...Free-Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." We are next introduced to another topic, which, strange to say, seems to have... | |
 | James Lackington - 1827 - 368 sider
...Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold: " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and late ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." P4RAP1SF.... | |
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 sider
...observed, that you should have taken a comfortable seat among Milton's speculating devils ; who, " Apart, sat on a hill, retired, In thoughts more elevate,...providence, foreknowledge,- will, and fate, Fix)d fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." A. My good Sir, I am... | |
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