English Prose (1137-1890)John Matthews Manly Ginn, 1909 - 544 pages |
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Page 132 - 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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and