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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. "
REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON. - Page 232
by Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 381 pages
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

1895 - 344 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 way-faring Christian. 23. How art thou to attain self-control, if thou shun all occasions of practising...
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Literary Pamphlets Chiefly Relating to Poetry from Sidney to Byron: I ...

Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 284 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 cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never...
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Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, Volume 1

Matteo Bandello - 1898 - 350 pages
...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.' In spite of his high professions, and the cogency of his reasoning, Fenton's...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 346 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.' What he says of himself in reply to the base and scurrilous and utterly unfounded charges...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 350 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. ' What he says of himself in reply to the base and scurrilous and utterly unfounded charges...
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Selected Prose

John Milton - 1985 - 468 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* 6 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never...
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The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction

Wayne C. Booth - 1988 - 576 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 cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that...
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The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty

Stewart Justman - 1991 - 206 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 cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, constant quality. For each one who begins Christian. IOHN MILTON (1608-74). English poet. Areop¿gitica: a Speech for ¡he L ibeny of Unlicensed...
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Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature: Essays in ...

Lloyd Davis - 1993 - 272 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 cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that...
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