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. A Student's History of England: 1509-1689 - Page 546by Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891Full view - About this book
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