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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. "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 4, 1960) - Page 407
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The Defender

1855 - 892 pages
...MILTON. CLOISTERED VIRTUE. 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. — MILTON. IMPOLICY OF PUNISHING...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 12

Universalism - 1855 - 446 pages
...Well has Milton said, " I can not 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." To the same end, Bacon tells...
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The Life of the Rev. Robert Newton, D.D.

Thomas Jackson - Newton, Robert, 1780-1854 - 1855 - 424 pages
...He could neither practice nor " 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 single-mindedness and...
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The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times: An Oration ...

George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...great wind in a forest: "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, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the...
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The Christian's penny magazine, and friend of the people [ed. by J. Campbell ...

Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised and unbreathad, that never sallies out and sees her ! adversary, but slinks out of tb-. race where that immortal garlaoJ is to be run for, not without dust and heat.— Milton. THE POWER...
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The Orator: A Monthly Magazine of Speeches, Plays, Dialogues ..., Volume 1

1857 - 280 pages
...wind in a forest: " I can not 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, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 20

1857 - 564 pages
...pray. REAL VIRTUE ACTIVE. 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. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 18

1858 - 866 pages
...MUST PRECEDE VICTORY. I CAN NOT 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. This was the reason why the...
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The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Volume 2

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...Milton, who says,—" 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."— Areop. He had taken the...
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The Biglow papers, ed. with a preface by the author of 'Tom Brown's schooldays'.

James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 pages
...Milton, who says, — " 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 heal? — Areop. He had taken the...
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