 Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and...  Select Prose Works - Page 201by John Milton - 1836 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner ' of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...through the cave of Mammon, and the hower of earthly hliss, that he might see and know, and yet ahstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is...necessary to the constituting of human virtue and the scanmng of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank Virtue, not a pure. • Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of Vice is in this world so necessary to theconstituting of human Virtue, and the scanning of Error to the confirmation of Truth, how can we... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 pages
...the world almost inseparably ; and insisting, consequently, upon the knowledge and survey of vice as necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and...the scanning of error to the confirmation of Truth. If this be so, and I have been reasoning to the same effect in the preceding paragraph, the fact, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...earthly Blisse that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survay of Vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human Vertue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of Truth, how can we more safely, and with lesse... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...shapes Her subtile gin, that not a fly escapes ! stituting of human virtue, and the scanning of errour to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely,...all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner."— MILTON.] There PHYSIC fills the space, and far around, Pile above pile her learned works abound : Glorious... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. lay by, till after crrour to the confirmation of truth, how cau we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions... | |
 | Samuel Eells - 1836 - 276 pages
...of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirma38 lion of truth, how can we more safely scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason. • » » Why should we then affect ;i rigor contrary to the manner of God and of nature, by abridging... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 pages
...utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure." — " Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason?" — Again — but, indeed the whole treatise is one strain of moral wisdom and political prudence :... | |
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