 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whitenefs is but an excremental whitenefs ; which was the reafon why our iage and ferious poefc... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rcjects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...that which purifies us in trial, and trial is hy what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is hut a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows...vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is hut a hlank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is hut an excremcntal whiteness; which was the reason... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that which is but a youngling in the contemplation of Evil,...and survey of Vice is in this world so necessary to theconstituting of human Virtue, and the scanning of Error to the confirmation of Truth, how can we... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...by what is contrary. That Vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank Vertue, not a pure ; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse2; which was the reason why our... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...rather. \That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what, is contrary.^ That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and jcriqus poet... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. — Milton. DCCCXCVI. Consider, that the invisible thing called a good name, is made up of the breath... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,...followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure—Milton. DCCCXCVI. Consider, that the invisible thing called a good name, is made up of the breath... | |
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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure... 
