 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 wayfaring Christian.  John Milton: A Biography - Pagina 119door Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 251 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pagina’s
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is , what wisdom can there be...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can 'I apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and j ! yet abstain, and yet... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pagina’s
...therefore, the state of man now is— what wisdom can there lie to choose, what continence to tortear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleawires, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that »Inch is truly better, he is... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...for immediate purposes, in a cb«-aj> : asunder, were not more inlermixed. As. therefore, the stale of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose,...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which a truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1849 - 498 pagina’s
...He 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be...continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil t He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain,... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pagina’s
...more intermixed." — " As, therefore, the ftate of man now is, what wifdom can there be to choofe, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pagina’s
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pagina’s
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pagina’s
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be...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 pagina’s
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be...that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly... | |
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