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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 Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...more mtermixed." — " 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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil f He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer thai which is truly better,...
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Bases of Belief, an Examination of Christianity as a Divine Revelation by ...

Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pages
...that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—•' 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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A Sickle for the Harvest

G. V. Maxham - 1854 - 192 pages
...more intermingled. * * * * 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 Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...more intermixed." — " 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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Once Upon a Time, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 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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An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an ...

Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...what was wearisome. ******* As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there bo 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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Sister Kate; Or, The Power of Influence

Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 pages
...of English prose composition ; — ' As 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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Once Upon a Time

Charles Knight - 1859 - 572 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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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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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