 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 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,...that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied, the books were magic,... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 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... | |
 | Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - Educators - 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... | |
 | Universalism - 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 - Judges - 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... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 without dust and heat. 
