 Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity...  English Prose Writings of John Milton - Page 324by John Milton - 1889 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner ' of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...earthly hliss, that he might see and know, and yet ahstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue and the scanmng of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...earthly bliss, that he might see and Jkiiow, and yet abstain. .'Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting...And this is the benefit which may be had of books promicuously read. But of the harm . that may result hence, three kinds are usually reckoned. . First,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...the World almost inseparably ; and insisting, consequently, upon the knowledge and survey of vice as necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and...the scanning of Error to the confirmation of Truth. If this be so, and I have been reasoning to the same effect in the prececdiug paragraph, the fact,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...the world almost inseparably ; and insisting, consequently, upon the knowledge and survey of vice as necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and...the scanning of error to the confirmation of Truth. If this be so, and I have been reasoning to the same effect in the preceding paragraph, the fact, and... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...earthly Blisse that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survay of Vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human Vertue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of Truth, how can we more safely, and with lesse... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...ofearthly bliss, that he might sec and know, Vr^l yet SibBtaii?." Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting...the benefit which may' be had of books promiscuously i-parlBut ofthe harm that may result hence, thrpp are usually reckoned. Firgt, isjegred_jhe that .uaay_jipreacL_... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...shapes Her subtile gin, that not a fly escapes ! stituting of human virtue, and the scanning of errour to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely,...all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner."— MILTON.] There PHYSIC fills the space, and far around, Pile above pile her learned works abound : Glorious... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of crrour to the confirmation of truth, how cau we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions... | |
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