I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. A Treasury of English Prose - Sida 84redigerad av - 1920 - 237 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 sidor
...is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 sidor
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 sidor
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 sidor
...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? J3e that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sidor
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Voting. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 sidor
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Young. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| 1840 - 534 sidor
...dictates open all thy breast ; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! — — ^— BlSBOF. Ha that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexerciscd, and unbreathed,... | |
| 1832 - 370 sidor
...can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
| 1832 - 372 sidor
...can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 852 sidor
...life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. * I cannut praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be inn for, not without... | |
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