 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...glass case in a drawing room," they too had sinned, and gone astray. As noble hearted Milton says, " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil! He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary : — that which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather. That which purifies... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...account of the behavior of ill men, are of the party of the latter. — Burke. VIRTUE, CLOISTERED. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with .all...truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies. out... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | Edward Miall - Apologetics - 1853 - 464 pages
...that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — •' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot,' he continues, 'praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can -.apprehend and consider vice with all...truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | G. V. Maxham - Sermons, American - 1854 - 192 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...pursuance of truth ;" and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that " he that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is... | |
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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. 
