 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 330 pages
...knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and the conscience be not defiled." " 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... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...more intermixed." — " As, therefore, the ftate of man now is, what wifdom can there be to choofe, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...virtue from occasional exposure to the temptation of intellectual error. " As, therefore," he says, " the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...with what is here referred to, being doubtless referable to her attractive powers. A "HEAL" CHRISTIAN. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and vet distinguish, and yet prefer tnht which is truly tetter — he is... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...glass case in a drawing 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, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...imposed on Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed." — "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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...imposed on Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed." — "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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...were imposed on Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 pages
...further, of the tree of knowledge, 'Twas a sure pledge, a sacred sign and seal. P. 83. 1 ' Perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.' Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. Prose Works, II. 68. that virtue is chiefly exercised,... | |
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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 warfaring Christian. 
