 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
 | Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 558 sidor
...abstain, and yet distinguish, yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out 163. The chief evil to be dreaded in forming principles, is their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 sidor
...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider rice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue un exercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1840 - 274 sidor
...mercy's dictates open all thy breast j . Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! ' BISHOP. II L that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-fating Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbrcatlied,... | |
 | 1840 - 272 sidor
...; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest I To mercy's dictates open all thy breast; BuROpr HE that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he igtbe true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 sidor
...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil! He that can apprehend and consider V ice tention, than the language of prose aims at, whether...conclusions on the nature of poetry, in the strictest waybring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 sidor
...pursuance of truth;' and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle that " he that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is a remarkable exception... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 sidor
...longer life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles.» I cannot 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 rim for, not without... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 sidor
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? | Ŕ" e: 2 + S E< x r?ȕp n ho is the true war-faring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | 1896 - 854 sidor
...sentence of the "Areopagitica:" — » Nineteenth Century, vol. vlU., pp. 401-403. September, 1880. 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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