 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...apprehendvand eonfider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue unexercifed, and unbreathed, that never... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleatures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 636 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer, that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ; that never... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstnin, and distinguish, and prefer that which ia truly better, is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexeroieefl end 'ims'powBrful temptation ; if I find, for instance, that it excites unholy desires,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...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,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of Evill ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet...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,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
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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. 
