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 - Página 61de Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 páginas
...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 páginas
...more intermixed." — " As, therefore, the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge...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 - 1854 - 192 páginas
...more intermingled. * * * * 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,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 páginas
...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... | |
| 1854 - 378 páginas
...taken their places. ACTIVE VIRTUE. — He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts 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 virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed,... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 páginas
...what was wearisome. ******* As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there bo 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,... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 páginas
...must cry on. — Burke. ACTIVE VIRTUE. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her lusts anc seeming pleasures, and yet abstain. and yet distinguish,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised and unbreathad,... | |
| Julia Addison - 1857 - 682 páginas
...of English prose composition ; — ' As 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, unexperienced and unbreathed,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 páginas
...of truth ;' and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that ' ho that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true waifaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is... | |
| Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 páginas
...He that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, conspicuously in regard to those which are higher, indeed, but more remote ? We have to bear in mind... | |
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