...private use, a little treatise, entitled, " The Christian Hero;" with a design (as he himself assures us) principally to fix upon his mind a strong impression...a stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures. For even whilst he was rioting in scenes of sensual delight, he wa» thoroughly convinced of the impropriety...

...private use, a little book, called, ' The Christian Hero,' with a design principally to fix upon his own mind a strong impression of virtue and religion, in opposition to a stronger propensity towards unwarrantable pleasures. This secret admonition was too. weak ; he therefore printed the book...

...private use a little book called " The Christian Hero," with a design principally to fix upon his own mind a strong impression of virtue and religion, in opposition to a stronger propensity towards unwarrantable pleasures.. This secret admonition was too weak ; and therefore, in 1701, he...

...private use a little book called " The Christian Hero," with a design principally to fix upon his own mind a strong impression of virtue and religion, in opposition to a stronger propensity towards unwarrantable pleasures. This secret admonition was too weak ; and therefore, in 1701, he printed...

...rendered the profession of a soldier a disqualification to inherit, we are not told. His conduct, however, soon procured him the post of Ensign. During this...has been thought doubtful, and which in many cases will-prove dangerous. A great judge of the human heart has well observed, that ' a man who proposes...

...contention was a little book, entitled •• The Christian Hero," printed in 1701. and written he says, " principally to fix upon his mind a strong impression...stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures." In his professions of virtue he was undoubtedly sincere ; but the flesh was stronger than the spirit.*...

...publication. Such is Steele's own declaration. When an ensign in the Guards, he wrote the work, in order " to fix upon his mind a strong impression of virtue...a stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures." He therefore, at last, printed the book with his own name, "in order that a testimony against himself,...

...publication. Such is Steele's own declaration. When an ensign in the Guards, he wrote the work, in order " to fix upon his mind a strong impression of virtue...a stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures." He therefore, at last, printed the book with his own name, "in order that a testimony against himself,...

...subsequent period, " When he was an ensign in the Guards, being thoroughly convinced of many things of which he often repented, and as often repeated, he...a stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures." * This he still found of little avail, so long as its perusal was merely confined to the privacy of...

...subsequent period, " When he was an ensign in the Guards, being thoroughly convinced of many things of which he often repented, and as often repeated, he...a stronger propensity to unwarrantable pleasures." * This he still found of little avail, so long as its perusal was merely confined to the privacy of...