 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.  Chapters from the Bible of the Ages - Page 161edited by - 1872 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...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,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...crown. Ywng. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue imoxercised, and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where tha immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and h eat. Assuredly we bring not innocence... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts anc seeming pleasures, and yet abstain. and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised and unbreathad,... | |
 | 1857 - 564 pages
...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,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence... | |
 | 1857 - 280 pages
...hundred years, •with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: " I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 pages
...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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexperienced and unbreathed,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."— Areop. He had taken the words... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...our gracious Preserver after having been seven weeks at sea. A BATTLE MUST PRECEDE VICTORY. I CAN NOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why the sage... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1858 - 478 pages
...wrestling with the perverseness of men, and the obstructions of nature and Providence. " It must be no fugitive and cloistered virtue* unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, when * Milton. 16 that immortal garland is to be run... | |
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