 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
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...he says, " 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...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 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 warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...with what is here referred to, being doubtless referable to her attractive powers. A "HEAL" CHRISTIAN. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and vet distinguish, and yet prefer tnht which is truly tetter — he is the true wayfaring Christian.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pages
...that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — •' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot,' he continues, 'praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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