 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 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 - Poets, English - 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 - 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 - Canada - 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 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...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 and... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heatM Assuredly 1 He that can appreliend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...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 and... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...incessant 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...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...of 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...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... | |
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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. 
