 Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in...  Obiter Dicta: First series - Page 26by Augustine Birrell - 1907 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Whyte - Presbyterian Church - 1883 - 250 pages
...certain philosophical schools, and is seldom heard from the lips of worldly men " (Binnie). USES. — I. "Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues 1 When God gave him reason, He gave him freedom to choose ; for reason is but choosing : he had been... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 pages
...name, what praise could be then due to well doing, what gramercy to be sober, just, or continent ? Many there be that complain of divine Providence for...choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.1 We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift,... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 304 pages
...Areopagitica " is quoted by more than one editor as supporting the erroneous reading:—"When God gave Adam reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing." * O The narrow meaning they have imposed upon this remark betrays a superficial reading of it. Milton... | |
 | English literature - 1886 - 330 pages
...name, what praise could be then due to well-doing, what grammercy to be sober, just, or continent ? Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for...choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift which... | |
 | Jones Very - Epic poetry - 1886 - 568 pages
...years before the conception of his poem, a sentence confirming this supposition. " Many," says he, " there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering...choosing. He had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift which... | |
 | Jones Very - Epic poetry - 1886 - 568 pages
...years before the conception of his poem, a sentence confirming this supposition. " Many," says he, " there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering...him freedom to choose ; for reason is but choosing. lie had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...a name, what praise could be then dne to well-doing, what gramercy to be sober, just, or continent? d 7 such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...name, what praise could be then due to well-doing, what grammercy to be sober, just, or continent ? Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for...choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift which... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...lies, to discern in what the law is Many there be that complain of divine Providence for suffer-"^ ing Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues ! when God gave...reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choos^ jmg; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves... | |
 | John Mudie - Temperance - 1889 - 72 pages
...Many there be who complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues I When God gave him reason He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing. We ourselves esteem not that obedience, or love, or gift which is of force ; God, therefore, left him... | |
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