 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - 548 sivua
...once more a well-known passage in Milton's Arcopagitica (23) : ' As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? . . . I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 sivua
...art she was represented ua maiden with the wings of a butterfly. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 sivua
...knowing good and evil ; that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil 'i Пе that can apprelund and consider vice with аи her bait« and seeming pleasure», and yet abstain,... | |
 | Young people - 1879 - 348 sivua
...of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 sivua
...As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, whut continence toforbeur, without the knowledge of evil ? He that .can apprehend...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wurf tiring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sivua
...Danger Man, -I Am Not a Number. I Am a Free Man" (1989). 28 What wisdom can there be to choose, whal continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. IOHN MILTON (1608-74). English poet. Areop¿gitica: a Speech for... | |
 | Geoffrey Martin Hodgson - 1996 - 398 sivua
...have found ample expression in literature. Consider the words of John Milton from his Areopagitica: He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and... | |
 | Lloyd Davis - 1993 - 272 sivua
...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare, without the knowledge of evill? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, 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 &... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 sivua
...out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.24 He concluded this last passage with the question "what wisdom can there be to choose what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?"25 Milton went further in the substance of the argument and rhetoric of persuasion. He wrote... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 sivua
...original sin, he writes, "true temperance" requires purifying "trial": the "warfaring Christian" must "apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better" (II, 514-16). But a merely human ethics, at least a pagan Greek ethics, knows not of original sin and... | |
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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. 
