 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 and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...  English Prose (1137-1890) - Page 128edited by - 1909 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...were not more intermixed. As, therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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 - Freedom of the press - 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,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...were imposed on Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...they ought to do ; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon bishoprics, she is bred up and nuzzled imcxercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...to render when he stands before " the judgment-seat of Christ." iTIic Cabuut. VICE AND VIRTUE. — He that can apprehend and consider Vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...appointed : these men practised the books, another might perhaps have read them in some sort usefully. Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider rice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue un exercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the... | |
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