 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
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 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 way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1854 - 378 sidor
...taken their places. ACTIVE VIRTUE. — He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 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...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | 1855 - 892 sidor
...spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — MILTON. CLOISTERED VIRTUE. 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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1855 - 424 sidor
...Christianity from which he had himself derived the greatest advantage. He could neither practice nor " 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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 sidor
...must cry on. — Burke. ACTIVE VIRTUE. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts anc seeming pleasures, and yet abstain. and yet distinguish,...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised and unbreathad, that never sallies... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1856 - 46 sidor
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: "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, notwithstanding... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 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...I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexperienced and unbreathed, that never sallies 574 A PROJECTED REMOVAL. forth and sees her adversary,... | |
 | 1857 - 564 sidor
...but the logic in his pulse decay, The Grecian he'll renounce, and learn to pray. REAL VIRTUE ACTIVE. 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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