 He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.  The Oxford Book of English Prose - Page 222edited by - 1925 - 1092 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleatures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...As, therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil ? He that can apprehend...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of Evill ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heatM Assuredly 1 He that can appreliend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend...that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied, the books were magic,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? J3e that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...dictates open all thy breast ; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! — — ^— BlSBOF. Ha that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexerciscd, and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1832 - 370 pages
...can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
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