 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...apprehend 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As tlrerefore the ftate 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, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the ftate 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 abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming i 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...knowing good and evil, that is to say,, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...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... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...of knowing Good by Evil. A* therefore the ftate 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 plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...apprehend 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 ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...were not more intermixed. As, therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...; what 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...truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out... | |
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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. 
