 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 90redigerad av - 1920 - 237 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 360 sidor
...living could be safe, if that should be admitted. [St John's College Voluntary Classical, 1847.] 171. 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... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1852
...religion or prudence : it will turn into something that is good, if we list to make it so. LXXXVIII. 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853
...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 slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 425 sidor
...that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — •' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot,' he continues, 'praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853
...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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853
...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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 546 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, that never sallies out and sees... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 432 sidor
...account of the behavior of ill men, are of the party of the latter. — Burke. VIRTUE, CLOISTERED. — 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... | |
 | PROFESSOR SHEDD - 1853
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of... | |
 | G. V. Maxham - 1854 - 184 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...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is run for, not without... | |
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