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" That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure... "
The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 174
by John Milton - 1845
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The History, Object, and Proper Observance of the Holy Season of Lent

William Ingraham Kip - 1867 - 246 pages
...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer, describing true Temperance under the person of Guion,...in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain." Yet it is evident, on the...
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The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

Henry Maudsley - 1867 - 506 pages
...therefore which is a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental, adventitious whiteness." "When insanity is met with in the young child, we observe what we do in the...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. MILTON. t Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs....
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...followers, and rejects it, is but a blank3 virtue, not a pure ;3 her whiteness is but an excremental4 whiteness ; which was the reason why our sage and...(whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than [Duns] Scotus four elements composing this material world, with a fifth essence peculiar to God and...
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The Physiology and Pathology of Mind

Henry Maudsley - 1868 - 614 pages
...therefore which is a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremeutal, adventitious whiteness." "When insanity is met with in the young child, \ve observe what...
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Areopagitica: 24 November> 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents

John Milton - 1869 - 92 pages
...known to think a better teacher then Scotus or Aquinas, defcribing true temperance under the perfon of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bowr of earthly bliffe that he might fee and know, and yet abflain. Since therefore the knowledge...
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Areopagitica: 24 November 1644

John Milton, John Selden - 1868 - 92 pages
...think a better teacher then Scotus or Aquinas, defcribing true temperance under the perfon . _.- ^ - of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the ;^ cave of Mammon, and the bowr of earthlv^bliffe that he might fee and know, and yet abftain. fcinfce thereAl fore the knowledge...
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... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...

John Milton - 1869 - 588 pages
...think a better teacher then Scotus or Aquinas, defcribing true temperance under the perfon of GuiĆ³n, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bowr of earthly bliife that he might fee and know, and yet abftain. Since therefore the knowledge...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas), describing true temperance...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas), describing true temperance...
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