 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.  Studies in Philology - Page 1831917Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleatures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...wisdom can there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...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 baits and...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 1 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and... | |
 | 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
...false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? J3e that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...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,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 370 pages
...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,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...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...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and... | |
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