...many things caused by us, as for example : " They by their own presumptuous folly died ", and this : " Perverse mankind, whose wills, created free, Charge...dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscalled the crimes of fate." ' For these expressions and such as these are opposed to the d idea...

...revolving in his breast, Whom young Orestes to the dreary coast Of Pluto sent, a blood-polluted ghost. " Perverse mankind ! whose wills, created free. Charge...dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscalled the crimes of fate. When to his lust ^Egisthus gave the rein, Did fate, or we, the adulterous...

...have remembered also the words of Zeus (to which Pope has given so amusing an antiCalvinistic twang) : Perverse mankind ! whose wills, created free, Charge...translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate. To Shelley's old detractor of Blackwood's (when religion was a fairly serious concern) his philosophy...

...have remembered also the words of Zeus (to which Pope has given so amusing an antiCalvinistic twang) : Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge...dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall 'd the crimes of fate. To Shelley's old detractor of Black-wood's (when religion was a fairly...

...whim of God— a quirk of human nature captured in the following lines: Perverse mankind! whose will created free. Charge all their woes on absolute decree;...dooming gods their guilt translate. And follies are miscalled the crimes of fate. When things go badly for us, we are all too prone to protest, 'It's not...