 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
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...wisdom can there bo 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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...must cry on. — Burke. ACTIVE VIRTUE. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts anc seeming pleasures, and yet abstain. and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 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, unexperienced... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 pages
...apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, conspicuously in regard to those which are higher, indeed, but more remote ? We have to bear in mind... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...and separated, aud the dross cast away anj consumed. flarel. CHRISTIAN— Proofs of a. He that can CONTENTMENT. S-> low as to be scorned without a sin, Without offence to God, cast he ¡я the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 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 way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Lent - 1867 - 246 pages
...faith." There is true wisdom indeed in the eloquent words of Milton, when he says — " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is are asylums, to which respectable females " when thrown out upon the world by the dissolution of their... | |
 | Max Ring - Great Britain - 1868 - 330 pages
...continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all his baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, 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... | |
 | Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all his baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fagU tive and cloistered Virtue unexercised and... | |
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