 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 páginas
...or boasls he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boasJ, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant of themselves, of God mud more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 páginas
...or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas! what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant...themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry,... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - 1972 - 349 páginas
...Stoics. But Christ stresses the truth essential for man — which is also the subject of Paradise Lost: Alas what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant...themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? (IV, 309-12) Christ also espouses the argument... | |
 | Michael P. Zuckert - 1998 - 426 páginas
...is even more emphatic. Offered the wisdom of the ancients by Satan, Christ replies with this query: Alas what can they teach, and not mislead, Ignorant...themselves, of God much more. And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending?21 Lacking the Bible, dependent on reason... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 páginas
...or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas! what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant...themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry,... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 2003 - 318 páginas
...4.235rf. and esp. 309— 1 1 , where Christ exclaims, of Socrates and all those who follow in his wake, "Alas! What can they teach, and not mislead, / Ignorant...themselves, of God much more, / And how the World began, and how Man fell, / Degraded by himself, on grace depending?" See also Milton's Christian Doctrine,... | |
 | Howard Clarke - 2003 - 332 páginas
...Milton, who saw the temptations as largely a test of trust, has Jesus offer a good Protestant reply: "Alas, what can they teach, and not mislead; / Ignorant...themselves, of God much more, / And how the world began, and how men fell / Degraded by himself, on grace depending?" (4.309-12). WhenT. S. Eliot later did... | |
 | Ken Hiltner - 2003 - 182 páginas
...or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, (4.300-10) In short, the Stoics "in themselves [alone] seek vertue, and to themselves / All glory arrogate,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...or boasts he can,0 For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Alas what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, 310 And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 páginas
...on nothing firm. All one needed was divine truth. Philosophers had perplexed themselves and others: Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how men fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending. Much of the soul they talk, but all awry... | |
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Alas! what can they teach, and not mislead, Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending? 
