 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
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - 400 sidor
...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of evill? 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 cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that... | |
 | Raymond George Siemens, David Moorman - 2006 - 362 sidor
...under harsh conditions? Let them that bristle at this consider what John Milton says in Areopagitica: 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... | |
 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 448 sidor
...is; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of evill? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring1 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that... | |
 | Jack D. Marietta - 2007 - 380 sidor
...Spirit within and of humanitarianism. By 1756, their pacifism was becoming, to use John Milton's words, a "fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." Not until well into 1756 did tax collectors in Pennsylvania begin to demand payment... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 sidor
...constancy.34 Similarly, Areopagitica famously interconnects the virtues of discernment and abstention: 'He that can apprehend and consider vice with all...is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian ... Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 25 sidor
...ripe years, were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what were virtue but a name?" 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... | |
 | Helen Cooper - 2004 - 560 sidor
...rather than a living ideal. CHAPTER ONE Quest and pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me' 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... | |
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