| John Milton - 1841 - 556 páginas
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — 560 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... | |
| 1841 - 640 páginas
...philosopher sympathises yet more — who ' Sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — ' or expatiate over the muster-roll of their chiefs, in which all the splendours of the East, the... | |
| 1842 - 514 páginas
...thorny speculations in hell. There they reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. We hardly know whether it be easier or more common to speculate the heart out of one's religion, or... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 páginas
...charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd , In thought* more elevate , and reason'd high Of Providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ,...absolute , And found no end , in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and linal misery , Passion and apathy , and glory... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 páginas
...charms the sense), Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." The latter groups are exquisitely conceived, and adapted to mitigate the " regions of horror, doleful... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, i'ix'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... | |
| 1844 - 548 páginas
...poor dialectician indeed, who, amidst all the obscurities of metaphysical speculation, reasoning " Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," could not, with the aid of the very great obscurities of the metaphysical diction of Germany, and upon... | |
| William Gresley - 1844 - 372 páginas
...fallen angels as discussing — they "Reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost.2" The end of such discussions is too commonly to unsettle men's minds, and call forth the angry... | |
| 1844 - 1070 páginas
...poor dialectician indeed, who, amidst all the obscurities of metaphysical speculation, reasoning " Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," could not, with the aid of the very great obscurities of the metaphysical diction of Germany, and upon... | |
| 1845 - 558 páginas
...instance, it has been with them as with the fallen angels, whom Milton represents as reasoning high " Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd...absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." 1ц. this paper, therefore, which is intended to be a brief exposition of the nature of sin, there... | |
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