 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.  REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON. - Page 232by Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is...warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed, that never fallies out and fees her adverfary, but flinks... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer, 300 A Speech for the Liberty ofurJicenfed Printing. 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 Tallies out and fees her adverfary, but ftinks... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...choofe, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and...that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chrillian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ; that never... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...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 prefer,...warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ; that never fallics-out and fees her adverfary, but... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 unbreathed, that never... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...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 wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...and consider Vice with all her baits •nd seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distingmsh, and yet 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 - 1822 - 580 pages
...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 wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...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 and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
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