 | Robert Skakel Knight - 1876 - 192 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...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... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1876 - 370 pages
...cause, to the adventurer in a grand enterprise, to the laborer in a noble work. "I cannot" (says Milton) "praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue that never sallies out and sees its adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, — not without... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...they have plunged. He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her seeming pleasures, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...Christian. 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... | |
 | 1886 - 406 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannoj praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercisecl and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better — he is the true way-faring Christian." — Muro». As abstain regards mainly an external object witli which we refuse to connect ourselves,... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbrcatlied that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,... | |
 | 1894 - 786 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming1 pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...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,... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. 23. How art thou to attain self-control, if thou shun all occasions of practising it? 24 There is no... | |
 | Matteo Bandello - 1898 - 350 pages
...consider vice, with all her baits ' and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, ' and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true ' wayfaring Christian.' In spite of his high professions, and the cogency of his reasoning, Fenton's book did not escape censure... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 pages
...consider vice with all her baits, and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...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,... | |
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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better — he is the true wayfaring Christian. 
