 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 wayfaring Christian.  A Milton Encyclopedia - Page 20edited by - 1979 - 215 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...apprehendvand eonfider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleatures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer, that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to chuse, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that which is but a youngling in the... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...; 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...praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heatM Assuredly 1 He that can appreliend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but tlinks out of the race, where that... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
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