This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. ... weak, or has little to do in the matter, as you may well know. Thus God, who is the first cause, and has foreknowledge of every thing, leaves nothing to be determined by chance 6 In human affairs, however, where man has no foreknowledge of what is to be the event, there fortune is ever strongest. "So, Quhare, leste foreknawing or intelligence Is in the man, and sone of wit or lore, Sen thou art wayke and feble, lo, therefore, The more thou art in dangere, and qmune W hir y clerkis clepen so fortune. XXVII. Bot for the sake, and at the reuerence Off Venus clere, as I the said tofore, "my son, since thou art but weak both in wit and lore, (or eipe"rience) thou art more subjected to what clerks ckpeii (or call) "fortune." From our poet's discussion of the question with regard to man's acting from his ov/afree-will, or from necessity, he appears to have been sufficiently versant in the metaphysical learning of his age. Such intricate questions have been the ignis fatuus, or play of philosophers, in all ages down to the present. Milton makes the subtile reasoning upon such abstruse points one of the entertainments of the fallen u Others sat on a hill retir'd, "And reason'd high "Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, "Fat fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, "And found no end, in wandering mazes lost! "-Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy!" Vain indeed! while every man, in defiance to the futile arguments of metaphysicians, ought to be convinced, from his own feelings, that b» is a/ree agent, and, as such, atxoMntaHe for his actions. I have of thy distresse compacience, And in confort and relesche of thy sore, The schewit here myn avise therefore, Pray fortune help; for...
The Works of James the First: also, Some Brief Remarks on the Intimate Connexion of the Scots Language with the Other Northern Dialects
