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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. "
The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ... - Page 72
edited by - 1887 - 536 pages
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...been that of knowing good by evil; and that a fugitive and cloistered virtue was not to ffe praised, a virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against those, who affected to consider the restraint of the press...
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Scraps

Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...Falsehood grapple: Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? " Again : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for— not without dust and beat." a single syllable on the Royal Prerogative, till the King had been proclaimed an enemy by the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." It is scarcely credible how any Christian, bearing in mind the spirit which elevated our blessed Saviour...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' It is evident that he is here writing for the few exalted natures like his own, without any consideration...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed....that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied, the books were magic,...
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The American Quarterly Register, Volume 4

Clergy - 1832 - 370 pages
...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." The whole Speech for the Liberty of...
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The Quarterly Register, Volume 4

Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." The whole Speech for the Liberty of...
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...they ought to do ; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his...
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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England and ..., Volume 1

1836 - 574 pages
...yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. THE EXCELLENCY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. — In respect to her ministry, her ritual, and...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...it! Like a centinel, Who sleeps upon his watch, it wakes in dread Ev'n at a breath of wind. HAV\UD. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. MILTON. WHAT is it to have A flattering false inscription on a tomb, And in men's hearts reproach ?...
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