 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true war-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies U) is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 502 pages
...Hooker. ACTIVE VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uuexercised and uubreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 506 pages
...Hooker, ACTIVE VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and uubreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, notwithftanding duft and heat. AfTuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1852 - 96 pages
...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...bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore,... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Fit words these to accompany the extract we made above. " In the New Testament we have such matters... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...cloistered virtue, nnexcrciged and unbreathed ; that never Rallies oat and seea her adversary, and slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — MILTOX. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. WE RECEIVE FROM TIME TO TIME some verydistressing communications from... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...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...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — " That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...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...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the... | |
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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. 
