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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. "
Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical ... - Page 295
by John Milton - 1809
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The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid the Formation of Fixed Principles in ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1875 - 474 pages
...imposed on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.—As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom 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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1875 - 560 pages
...leaped forth into the world. And perhaps tLint it that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good aiid evil • that is to say, of knowing good by evil....therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can ' Ihere be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? Qle that can apprehend...
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Exercises in English composition

Robert Skakel Knight - 1876 - 192 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...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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is e ! О cruel Love ! on thee I lay My curse, which...fears ; Thy prison-mates groans, sighs, and tears ; pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 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...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...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 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...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...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is se, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the burdens of unlimited monopoly, will continuance to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 66

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - 548 pages
...allowed, in this connexion, to quote once more a well-known passage in Milton's Arcopagitica (23) : ' As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom...continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? . . . I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...became a natural and inextinguishable ]«irt of his moral being. MII.MAN : Latin Christianity, i. 26. 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...
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The Great Conversers: And Other Essays

William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pages
...God, boldly confronts it when assailed ? Let John Milton answer this question. Nobly has he said : " 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...
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