 Christian. 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.  The Friend: A Series of Essays - Pàgina 61per Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pàgines
...what is false and seductive, because our virtue will thereby be more fully and rigorously tried. ' He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pàgines
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pàgines
...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? J3e that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pàgines
...dictates open all thy breast ; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! — — ^— BlSBOF. Ha that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexerciscd, and unbreathed, that never laities out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
 | 1832 - 370 pàgines
...than the restraint of ten vicious. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... | |
 | 1832 - 372 pàgines
...than the restraint often vicious. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pàgines
...knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state 01 man now is — what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pàgines
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue imcxercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pàgines
...to render when he stands before " the judgment-seat of Christ." iTIic Cabuut. VICE AND VIRTUE. — He that can apprehend and consider Vice, with all...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pàgines
...knowing good by evil. 23. As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
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