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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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God in Human Thought: Ancient religions

Ezra Hall Gillett - Literature and morals - 1874 - 442 pages
...Printing," he 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 the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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Phoenicia and Israel: A Historical Essay

Augustus Samuel Wilkins - Jews - 1874 - 234 pages
...in a long stern struggle with error. "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," will never work any great...
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The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

Henry Maudsley - Insanity (Law) - 1874 - 508 pages
...after saying that we know good by evil, " 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 or heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...beyond life. Arcopagitica. 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. . . . Methinks I see in my...
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Select thoughts on the ministry and the Church, gathered by E. Davies

Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...— Virtue Confined in a I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue nnexercised and tmbreathed, 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 Inng not innocence...
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Advance Thought

Charles E. Glass - Spiritualism - 1876 - 230 pages
...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust aud heat." Matthew Henry holds that — " It is more to the honour of a Christian soldier by faith...
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Extracts from Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield', with life of the author and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 128 pages
...Milton's Areopagitica: '' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immorlall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. . . . That vertue therefore...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 88

1876 - 892 pages
...poets on this subject. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to bo run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly, we bring not innocence...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...wayfaring 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. MILTON. Christianity bears...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...wayfaring1 Christian.* I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexcrcised and unbreathed, for necessity ? No, but they remain still as a very affront to marriage. T where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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