 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1886 - 330 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. g 7 ns, pleasures round about ns, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue ?... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1887 - 564 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, th« praise of his abstinence.' Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing Prose Works, II. 74.... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...choosing ; he had been else a ' mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem ' not of that obedience a love or gift which ' is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his ' abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...reason is but choos^ jmg; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin; for besides that... | |
 | John Mudie - Temperance - 1889 - 72 pages
...gave him reason He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing. We ourselves esteem not that obedience, or love, or gift which is of force...before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes. It was for him to act aright ; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1894 - 228 pages
...artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not of that obedi3oence or love or gift, which is of force: God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he creat passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly temper'd are the very ingredients... | |
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We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. 
