As therefore the state of man now 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 baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... English Prose (1137-1890) - Strona 128pod redakcją - 1909 - Liczba stron: 544Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - Liczba stron: 512
...unlawful than what was wearisome. ******* As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there bo to choose, what continence to forbear, without the...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| George William Curtis - 1856 - Liczba stron: 46
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
| Julia Addison - 1857 - Liczba stron: 684
...his essays—- those wonderful but little-studied specimens of English prose composition ; — ' As the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be...I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexperienced and unbreathed, that never sallies 574 A PROJECTED REMOVAL. forth and sees her adversary,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - Liczba stron: 600
...of truth ;' and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that ' ho that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true waifaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - Liczba stron: 414
...imposed on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed." — "As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
| John Milton - 1866 - Liczba stron: 520
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| John Milton - 1866 - Liczba stron: 500
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. VI cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - Liczba stron: 382
...many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - Liczba stron: 356
...many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - Liczba stron: 664
...ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life. . . . rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without... | |
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