 | J. Sullivan - 2001 - 260 pages
...statement made even earlier.44 In 1644 John Milton argued in parliament against censorship of printing: what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?.. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. thai never sallies out... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - 2002 - 524 pages
...evil was a common interpretation of Genesis 3:22, which may originate in Milton's Areopagitica (1644): 'that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil' (I owe this note to John Worthen). n. My Lady Wish-fort . . . delight in : Lady Wishfort, aunt to the... | |
 | Wendy Lesser - 2003 - 253 pages
...an attack on the tyranny of censorship, Milton asked Parliament a question he considered rhetorical: "what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?" In other words, how could God have said that Adam and Eve possessed free will when he had forbidden... | |
 | Owen Parnaby - 2002 - 264 pages
...wanted to see it again. Paul Harris would concur with John Milton's description of a virtuous man: '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... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...knowledge of good and evil, as two twms cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...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... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.101 As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what jontinence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all... | |
 | Gunther R. Kress - 2003 - 212 pages
...is; 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 baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | Murray Dry - 2004 - 324 pages
...Milton's defense of reading includes the argument that knowledge of good is interwoven with knowledge of evil: As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom...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... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - 608 pages
...the mental system. Milton argues that knowledge of vice is necessary to the constituting of virtue. "What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...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... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 pages
...is; 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 baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
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