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
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, h countries, once so glorious and famous for their happy estate, Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unciereisĀ«! and unbreathed, that never... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 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... | |
| Edward Miall - 1849 - 498 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 warfaring Christian. I cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 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... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed,... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...knowledge of evill ? He that can 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 wayfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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 can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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... | |
| Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 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 warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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