 | Edward Miall - 1849 - 498 pages
...He that can apprehend," says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — " He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised,... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 pages
...knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and the conscience be not defiled." " What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now fathers, t He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain,... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...more intermixed." — " 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 abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 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 wayfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...glass case in a drawing room," they too had sinned, and gone astray. As noble hearted Milton says, " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 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...that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...with what is here referred to, being doubtless referable to her attractive powers. A "HEAL" CHRISTIAN. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and vet distinguish, and yet prefer tnht which is truly tetter — he is the true wayfaring Christian.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed." — "As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, 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. 
