 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - Theology - 1913 - 1092 pages
...reason is but choosing; else he had been a mere artificial Adam as he is in the motions [puppet-shows]. "We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love...left him free, set before him a provoking object, even almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 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,...the 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... | |
 | Philology - 1917 - 692 pages
...choosing; he had bin else a meere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift, which...us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly temper'd are the very ingredients pf vertu? They are not skilfull considerers of human things, who... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 346 pages
...cnoosing; he had bin else a meere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift, which...herein the right of his reward, the praise of his absjinencey Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1918 - 180 pages
...a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that fore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever...the 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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. e stomach, riding for the head, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? They are not skilful considerers... | |
 | English philology - 1922 - 766 pages
...tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; . . . God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking...rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?" IV And because this conquest of passion over reason introduced into man's life an evil principle, Milton... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 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,...tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? They are not skilfufl considerers of human things, who imagine to remove I sin by removing the matter of sin; for,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1923 - 430 pages
...hangman, not as an effectual remedy, but as the " most effectual remedy man's prevention can use." therefore left him free, set before him a provoking...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... | |
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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. 
