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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. "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 299
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1838 - 1072 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...that can apprehend and consider vice with all her bait1; and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly...
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The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the ...

Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 566 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, yet prefer that which is truly better, he...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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,...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...were not mure intermixed. As, therefore, the slate of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which ii truly better,...
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The poetical works of ... George Crabbe, with his letters and journals, and ...

George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...knowing good by evil . As, therefore, the state 01 man now is — what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider rice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16

1840 - 272 pages
...; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest I To mercy's dictates open all thy breast; BuROpr 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,...
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London, Volumes 1-2

Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 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,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1843 - 720 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 586 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is , what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is , what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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,...
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