 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...what knowledge 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 distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...what knowledge 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 distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...is, what wisdoms can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare, without the knowledge of Eviil? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring 1 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...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...and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the trne war-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, un exercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...forbeare, without the knowledge of Evill? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her taits and seeming, pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...to virtue and strength consists in full walking amid both, distinguishing, avoiding, and choosing. " I cannot praise a " fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, " that never sallies out to see her adversary, but slinks out of " the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not"... | |
 | 1873 - 272 pages
...most perfect scholar England had ever produced. " Laudatus a hiudalo i'mi." " He that can apprchend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet distinguish, and yet abstain, and prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian.... | |
 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1874 - 580 pages
...the music of his speech, even in prose (what an ear and touch for the organ he must have had !), " 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 cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...ornaments ; and a little of all is but little worth. — Hopkins. Characteristics of a True Christian. — He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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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. 
