 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 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 warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...apprehendvand eonfider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming i pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...knowledge of evil ? He that can 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 true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 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 warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that which is but a youngling in the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and 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
...there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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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 way-faring Christian. 
