 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 - Page 61by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...apprehendvand eonfider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As therefore the ftate of man now is ; what wifdom can there be to choofe, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftainj and yet diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...of knowing good by evil. As tlrerefore the ftate of man now is ; what wifdom can there be to choofe, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleatures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...of knowing Good by Evil. A* therefore the ftate of man now is; what wifdom can there be to choofe, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming plcafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer, that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...; what wisdome can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare without the knowledge of Evill ? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heatM Assuredly 1 He that can appreliend and consider Vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but tlinks... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...were not more intermixed. As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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,... | |
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