 evil. 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  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 108by John Milton - 1838 - 963 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As ttarcfore the Hate 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 diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 492 pages
...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of EviN ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming plea- j sures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 572 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...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 576 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...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of €vil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be mòre fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer tliat which is truly better, he is the true waifaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...this is that doom 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...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1827 - 210 pages
...this is that doom 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...continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting... | |
 | American education society - 402 pages
...person more than the restraint of ten vicious. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom 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, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 370 pages
...person more than the restraint of ten vicious. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom 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, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 410 pages
...perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is, of knowing good by evil . As, therefore, the state of man now is —...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. 1 cannot... | |
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