...experience, by having gotten so often involved in painful, thorny speculations in hell. There they reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ahBolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. We hardly know whether it be easier or more common...

...retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, i'ix'd field. Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : Yet, with a pleasing...

...thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd falc, Or full with feeding sink into a sleep: Each household...hearths the little Lares creep. Our king this more Passion and apathy, and glory and shame. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : Yet, with a pleasing...

...In thought* more elevate , and reason'd high Of Providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge absolute , And found...and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and linal misery , Passion and apathy , and glory and shame ; Vain wisdom all , and false philosophy :...

...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." The latter groups are exquisitely conceived, and adapted to mitigate the " regions of horror, doleful...

...hav& gone before you, • And now apart sit on a hill retired. In thought* more elevate and reason high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge ab*olute, And find no end in wandering mazes lofcl." Next to that of being called is the step of our...

...gender strife. Such are the topics which Milton represents the fallen angels as discussing — they "Reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, 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...

...the powers of action which he pos1 Others apart, eat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, AnA found no end in wandering mazes lost." sesses ; just as men make puppets, and move them by inserting...

...frequent disputes on metaphysical theology. Often we sat apart — " In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, Of Providence, foreknowledge, will,...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." I remember I was, for argument-s sake, Agustinian, and strenuously defended predestination. My friend...

...engaged with their dispute about Liberty and Necessity, — reasoned high Of Providence, Forekuowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge...absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost. In 1658 appeared in Latin what Hobbes called the Second Section of his Elements of Philosophy (JSlementorum...