 | Colin McIver - 1824 - 434 стор.
...indulgences and pursuits which he condemns. Such an one may well adopt the sentiment of the Heathen : " I know the right, and I approve it too : " I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue!" Equally beyond the power of Reason is it, to fix the affections upon objects which it approves as most... | |
 | William A. Brewer - 1836 - 198 стор.
...Deteriora sequor." Or, as my tutor, used in a very euphonous couplet to interpret them, " I know ihe right, and I approve it, too; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." These thoughts were forced upon me a few days since, as I leaned quietly against the thatched wall... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1841 - 396 стор.
...vacillated between the love of power and the sense of justice. He might with truth have exclaimed : " I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue."' He was, indeed, incapable of directing himself. His first prime minister, Maurepas, an experienced... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1843 - 388 стор.
...vacillated between the love of power and the sense of justice. He might with truth have exclaimed : " I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." He was, indeed, incapable of directing himself. His first prime minister, Maurepas, an experienced... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1843 - 392 стор.
...vaeillated between the love of power and the sense of justice. He might with truth have exclaimed: "" I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.1' He was, indeed, incapable of directing himself. His first prime minister, Maurepas, aa experienced... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1847 - 468 стор.
...is this, I that no proverbial saying is more common or more easily assented to than this : — " 1 know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." Or, as it is in Scripture, " For what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do." We are to... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1847 - 468 стор.
...is this, that no proverbial saying is more common or more easily assented to than this : — . " 1 know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong puriue." Or, as it is in Scripture, " For what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do."... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 стор.
...that which they very well know ought to be done. For they even seem to justify themselves in it. '' I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yd the wrong pursue " — • is the language of many an individual — even of some from whom we could... | |
 | George W. Burnap - 1850 - 436 стор.
...capacity of godlike virtue, men in all ages have complained, in the language of the poet, — " I see the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." I answer, that mankind, in their present state, are imperfect. God alone is perfect. He is infinite... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1852 - 400 стор.
...that which they very well know ought to be done. For they even seem to justify themselves in it. '' I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue " — is the language of many an individual — even of some from whom we could hope better things... | |
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I know the right; and I approve it too; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. 
