 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...ready with their auswer, " Custom ! Custom ! Ordinances ! Ordinances ! Fathers I " Milton, John. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and sweat. Nazianzen, Gregory. — Father of all through every hour, May I proclaim the Triune power, Enshrin'd... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...rest. He knew the toil and danger which awaited him ; but he knew also that he had taken his part in ' the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' His great soul was in itself gentle and open as day, and in gentler times would not have appeared in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true war-faring Christian. courage and considerate pride, U) is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 506 pages
...Hooker, ACTIVE VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and uubreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...Hooker. ACTIVE VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uuexercised and uubreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, notwithftanding duft and heat. AfTuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1852 - 96 pages
...religion or prudence : it will turn into something that is good, if we list to make it so. LXXXVIII. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore,... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Fit words these to accompany the extract we made above. " In the New Testament we have such matters... | |
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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. 
