 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 warfaring Christian.  The Quarterly Review - Page 445publié par - 1825Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1836 - 426 pages
...practice; we "cannot praise a fugitive and * Historical Memoirs of the Church of France, pp. 266, 267. cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Mr. Hume, it is true, himself no... | |
 | 1835 - 516 pages
...their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immorul garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an author... | |
 | Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 558 pages
...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...sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out 163. The chief evil to be dreaded in forming principles, is their taking a sectarian taint, which enlarged... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...and consider rice 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 un exercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...longer life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles.» I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be rim for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. August 21.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...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 warfaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is a remarkable exception... | |
 | 1845 - 632 pages
...Spare Minutes. TEMPTATION REPELLED. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexcrcised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, wliere that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and sweat. This was the reason why... | |
 | 1861 - 462 pages
...dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing." In the Areopogitica occurs the following passage : "1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never rallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - 1846 - 548 pages
...allurements of a corrupt ambition, has been a life of honour, integrity, and independence. His has not been a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out to meet her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...consider vice, with all her baita and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and uncxcrciaed and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
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