 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 445edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...apprehendvand eonfider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed, that never... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstnin, and distinguish, and prefer that which ia truly better, is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexeroieefl end 'ims'powBrful temptation ; if I find, for instance, that it excites unholy desires,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer, that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ; that never... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. * I cannut praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be inn for, not without dust and heat. — 31ilton. hm August... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. » I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the r.ue where that immortal garland is to be ii'n for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. b. i».... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 596 pages
...unlicensed printing, but for the indiscriminate reading of all works, whatever their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for; not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an 'O author... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and unfolding those chaste and high mysteries, with timeliest care infused, imcxercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,... | |
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