 | Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 lehte
...various feats of war and agility, " 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, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argu'd then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Evans - 1808 - 342 lehte
...representation of Milton :— " Others apart, sat on a hillretir'd, "In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, ** Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and..." Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, " And found no end — in uandering mazei lost I" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted^... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 lehte
...themselves with predestination. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd. In thoughts more elevate, and rcason-d high Of Providence, Fore-Knowledge, Will and Fate ; Fix-d Fate, Free-Will, Fore-Knowledge absolute, But found no end, in waud'ring- mazes lost?" B. ii. 1. 557. " Speculations," says a judicious writer,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 lehte
...words that describe it. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix*d fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost. Sir Richard Steele assisted in this paper. T. " * The dying... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 lehte
...fire." If we may credit Milton, the devils had some knowledge of this ; for he says, They reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; An'd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Providence neither promised nor afforded them perpetual... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 lehte
...metaphorical sublime. " Others apart sat an a hill retired, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate'..." Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute." NOTE (H h), P. 397. In the effect of this superiority of stature, there seems to be something specifically... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 lehte
...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. III. I Those who, notwithstanding the opinion... | |
 | Samuel Charters - 1815 - 110 lehte
...himself in the clouds of beau ideal, and the metaphysics of Kant, and of Milton's devils, Who reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no rest, in endless mazes lost. . i He sometimes thinks of anchorites, and reads the lives... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 lehte
...the power of moral principles in determining the volitions of a moral agent. Instead of ' Reasoning high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge, absolute, And find no end in wandering mazes lost, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy ;' Let us endeavour... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 lehte
...words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." N" 115. TUESDAY, JANUARYS, 1709-10. -Nmmm inlervenit vitivm... | |
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... the sense of a new style and a new spirit in poetry came over me. It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil, or of the first welcome breath of Spring, " While yet the trembling year is unconfirmed." Coleridge... 
