| John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...evil ? He that can 'I apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and j ! yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he 1 j is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered A! virtue unexercised,... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 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, that... | |
| Edward Miall - 1849 - 498 pages
...says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — " He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 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,...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which a truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed, that never... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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 can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 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, that... | |
| 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
...room," they too had sinned, and gone astray. As noble hearted Milton says, " 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,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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