 | Charles E. Glass - Spiritualism - 1876 - 230 pages
...that it profits a man nothing if in gaining the whole world he lose his own soul. Milton says — " 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1877 - 400 pages
...leaped forth into the world." And perhaps, surmises in his prose the poet of Paradise Lost, this is the doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.* Jeremy Taylor makes it observable that in the mentions of Paradise in the Apocalypse, twice is the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world! And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...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 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into, of knowing good and...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to s;iy, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose,... | |
 | Arts - 1988 - 140 pages
...of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the world. And perhaps this is the doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil. (II, 514) 82 Milton implies that the totalized and yet also unbounded Truth expressed in the Osiris... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - Law - 1994 - 900 pages
...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 - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...knowledge of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leaped forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil. (II, 514) Milton interprets man's first disobedience of eating of the Tree of Knowledge in a curiously... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...up together almost inseparably', and the knowledge of one involves knowledge of the other. Indeed, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence...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... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...years. good and evil as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and...continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? . . . Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting... | |
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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. 
