 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. g 7 ns, pleasures round about ns, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue ?... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1887 - 564 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, th« praise of his abstinence.' Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing Prose Works, II. 74.... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...choosing ; he had been else a ' mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem ' not of that obedience a love or gift which ' is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his ' abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | John Mudie - 1889 - 72 pages
...gave him reason He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing. We ourselves esteem not that obedience, or love, or gift which is of force...before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes. It was for him to act aright ; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | John Milton - 1894 - 228 pages
...artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not of that obedi3oence or love or gift, which is of force: God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he creat passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly temper'd are the very ingredients... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 284 pages
...choosing ; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he creat passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly temper'd are the very ingredients... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 pages
...but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial ' Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience 'a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | Edward Randolph Emerson - 1902 - 72 pages
...gave him reason He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing. We ourselves esteem not that obedience, or love, or gift which is of force....before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes. It was for him to act aright. Herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise... | |
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We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force : God therefore left him free ; set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. 
