 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
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 530 σελίδες
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 σελίδες
...now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowl- 15 edge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | David Smith - 1905 - 610 σελίδες
...need to seclude themselves either by closing the avenues of sense or by repairing to a hermitage. " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 σελίδες
...tendencies. Prudence or a sense of duty may cause us to abstain from things in themselves indifferent. " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better— he is the true way-faring Christian. " — MILTOS. As abstain regards mainly an external object with which we refuse... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 292 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 wayfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexereised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1907 - 496 σελίδες
...I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long reechoed in my ear. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to'be run for, not without dust and heat." * Down to " virtue," the current s and R are both announced... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 σελίδες
...Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. It was from out of the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | Thomas F. Merrill - 1976 - 206 σελίδες
...(IX, 335-36) our humanistic sensibilities respond. We think of the rolling phrases from Areopagitica: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for . . . 18. Areopagitica, The Student's Milton, ed. Frank Allen Patterson, rev. ed. (New York, 1933),... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 σελίδες
...chooses. To be innocent in this world is one thing; to know evil* and still choose good is quite another : "He that can apprehend and consider vice with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd" (Areop... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 σελίδες
...manner in which they define "testing." Milton's most definitive statement occurs in the Aeropagitica: As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom...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 without... | |
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