As therefore the state of 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 vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... English Prose (1137-1890) - Σελίδα 128επεξεργασία από - 1909 - 544 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| 1840 - 274 σελίδες
...mercy's dictates open all thy breast j . Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! ' BISHOP. II L that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-fating Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbrcatlied,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 σελίδες
...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...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is a remarkable exception... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 σελίδες
...imposed upon Psyche as an incessant «bour to cull outj and 80rt asunder, were not more «Kermiied. s puss must pay : The widow in distress he graciously...ever constant known, which whereeoe'er ehe came, Was unciereis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 σελίδες
...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ! He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baita uncxcrciaed and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 σελίδες
...of this kind, which must render their author dear to all who love piety and eloquence. -ED. *• 2 together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Edward Miall - 1849 - 498 σελίδες
...He that can apprehend," says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — " He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 σελίδες
...knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and the conscience be not defiled." " What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 σελίδες
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 σελίδες
...virtue from occasional exposure to the temptation of intellectual error. " As, therefore," he says, " the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 σελίδες
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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