 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pages
...that can apprehend,' 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 pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | G. V. Maxham - 1854 - 192 pages
...upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermingled. * * * * As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom...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 - 1854 - 568 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 344 pages
...pursuance of truth ;" and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that " 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pages
...it had been much more expedient to have told us what was unlawful than what was wearisome. ****** 4 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...it had been much more expedient to have told us what was unlawful than what was wearisome. ******* As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there bo to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 682 pages
...his essays—- those wonderful but little-studied specimens of English prose composition ; — ' As 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 598 pages
...of truth ;' and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that ' ho 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 [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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...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 Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...is melted out and separated, aud the dross cast away anj consumed. flarel. CHRISTIAN— Proofs of a. 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 ¡я... | |
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