 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 Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that... | |
 | 1871 - 630 pages
...of enticement, however, it is necessary to suppose, otherwise the case is one of mere avoidance. " He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...truly better, — he is the true wayfaring Christian." — Miituti. FORBEAK (literally, to bear or keep, and for (with the sense of negation) — • to withhold)... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what knowledge can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain and distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...knowing good by evil. As, therefore, the state of man now is, what knowledge can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain and distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 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...and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the trne war-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, un exercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...is, what wisdoms can there be to choose, what continence to forbeare, without the knowledge of Eviil? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring 1 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...forbeare, without the knowledge of Evill? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her taits and seeming, pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring ' Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd,... | |
 | 1873 - 272 pages
...most perfect scholar England had ever produced. " Laudatus a hiudalo i'mi." " He that can apprchend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet distinguish, and yet abstain, and prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian.... | |
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