 | Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - 2001 - 324 páginas
...which Adam fell into 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 to forebear, without the knowledge of evil? — JOHN MILTON* This book is devoted to the exploration of... | |
 | J. Sullivan - 2001 - 260 páginas
...statement made even earlier.44 In 1644 John Milton argued in parliament against censorship of printing: 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. thai never sallies out... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 páginas
...therefore the state of man now is: what wisdom can there he to choose, what continence to forhear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her haits and seeming pleasures, and yet ahstain and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2001 - 580 páginas
...inseparably', then we need to know evil in order to be able to reject it by a deliberate act of will: He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasutes, and yer . . . prefer that whieh Is truly berter, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 páginas
...distinct from the things conveying it, which does not confuse the image with its significance and so can "yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better." For that reason, in Milton's view, Spenser is a better teacher than Aquinas or Scotus, because as a... | |
 | Owen Parnaby - 2002 - 264 páginas
...wanted to see it again. Paul Harris would concur with John Milton's description of a virtuous man: 'He that can apprehend and consider vice with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian'.10 Paul Harris put his faith in friendship, not out of ignorance of the evil in... | |
 | Wendy Lesser - 2003 - 253 páginas
...an attack on the tyranny of censorship, Milton asked Parliament a question he considered rhetorical: "what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?" In other words, how could God have said that Adam and Eve possessed free will when he had forbidden... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...which Adam fell into 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring0 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed,0... | |
 | Gunther R. Kress - 2003 - 212 páginas
...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...warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloisterd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 páginas
...which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.101 As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what jontinence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all... | |
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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 wayfaring Christian. 
