...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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."...

...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...

...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...

...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...