 Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and...  Philosophical and Theological Opinions - Page 77by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001Limited preview - About this book
 | Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...all defira'ble things, and gives. us minds that can wander beyond all limit and fatiety. Why fhould we then affect a, rigor 'Contrary to the manner of GOD and of nature, by abridging or fcanting thofe means, which books freely permitted are, both to the .triall of vertue, and the exercife... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...confirmation of truth, how can we more fafely, and with lefs danger fcout into the regions of fin and falfity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner ' of reafon ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promifcuoufly read. But of the harm that... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...to the constituting of human virtue and the scanmng of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity, than hy reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the henefit which... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...to the constituting of human virtue and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promicuously read. But of the harm . that may result... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...to theconstituting of human Virtue, and the scanning of Error to the confirmation of Truth, how can we more safely and with less danger, scout into the...manner of Tractates, and hearing all manner of reason r" Milton's ispeech far tlte Liberty of unlicensed I'lintmg. Again— but, indeed the whole Treatise... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the...manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may' be had of books promiscuously i-parlBut ofthe harm that may result... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...profuseness, all desirable things, and gives us minds that can wander beyond all limit and satiety. Why should we, then, affect a rigor contrary to the manner of God and of nature, by abridging or scant4* ing those means, which books freely permitted are, both to the trial of virtue and the exercise... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...escapes ! stituting of human virtue, and the scanning of errour to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the...all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner."— MILTON.] There PHYSIC fills the space, and far around, Pile above pile her learned works abound : Glorious... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of crrour to the confirmation of truth, how cau what was formerly in practice. The books of those...refuted, and condemned in the general councils; and ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read. But of the harm that may result... | |
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