 ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed; that...  The Christian Observer - Page 2541815Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...honesty and good fife appear now ^"Tugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasar;', they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what u benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be sooi. guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon Truth herselfe 30 unlesse they see her elegantly drest, that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear...difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appeare to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appeare to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this what we know of the corruption and bane which they suck in dayly from the writings... | |
 | William Morison - 1909 - 172 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." The most distinguished services to Christianity in every age have been rendered by men who were "out-churched,"... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 570 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed, that whereas the paths...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." — Milton, The Reason of Church Government, Book II, 1641. "To which flogic and rhetoricf poetry should... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed; that whereas the paths...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1924 - 366 pages
...especially of soft and delicious temper — who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed; — that, whereas...difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.'... | |
 | Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1924 - 362 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her \ elegantly dressed, that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear j now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all... | |
 | Western Reserve University - 1924 - 104 pages
...(who will not so much as look upon Truth her self, unless they see her elegantly drest) that wheras the Paths of Honesty and good Life appear now rugged and difficult, tho they be indeed easy and pleasant; they would then appear to all Men both easy and pleasant, tho... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of English - English literature - 1925 - 260 pages
...delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed; that whereas the paths...be indeed easy and pleasant, they will then appear easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. Though this passage was written a... | |
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