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 - Sivu 445muokkaaja - 1825Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1908 - 548 sivua
...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? . . . 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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 sivua
...wfcnf, and from our Milton, who says : "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexereised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of th« race where that immortal garland is to be n>» for, not without dust and hent." — Artop. HC... | |
| Young people - 1879 - 348 sivua
...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...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... | |
| John Reid - 1880 - 344 sivua
...we deem to be favored virtues may be nothing but favored sins. "I can not praise," remarks Milton, "a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence... | |
| John Weiss - 1880 - 296 sivua
...mankind ? " They will not so easily be cajoled out of their old opinion, which Milton shared, who said, " 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... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1881 - 230 sivua
...until he wakes to find himself in chains of iron — his very will destroyed ? When Milton says, " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary," Dr. Crosby, you suppose, interprets it as meaning that boys should frequent gambling hells and such... | |
| 1881 - 146 sivua
...victim, until he wakes to find himself in chains of iron, his very will destroyed ? When Milton says, " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary," Dr. Crosby, you suppose, interprets it as meaning that boys should frequent gamblinghells and such... | |
| Second Church in Newton (West Newton, Mass.) - 1882 - 192 sivua
...turning. He was in no way possessed of the "fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and un breathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race," to which Milton refers. He not only fought what he deemed to be heretical doctrines wherever he went,... | |
| Max Karl Gottschalk - 1883 - 402 sivua
...opposes the tradition of prelacy." He was indeed forced to this course of action, refusing as he did " to 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... | |
| John Milton - 1884 - 326 sivua
...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...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... | |
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