 | Jane Margaret Hooper - 1874 - 580 pages
...fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and regrets it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure." " '... | |
 | John Morley - 1874 - 236 pages
...are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin; that virtue therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Augustus Samuel Wilkins - 1874 - 234 pages
...without dust and heat," will never work any great deliverance, be it in man or in nation. " That virtue which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...out of the race where tfcit immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather : that which I'lrifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which ь tat a youngling... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 pages
...literature, the hands of the god or the Fate figure test the mettle of humankind through trial — "that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary," in Milton's indelible phrase. Bailey, in his Universal Etymological Dictionary, guesses that trial... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. 7460 Areopagitica Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. 7461 Areopagitica If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all... | |
 | Dee Hock - 1999 - 366 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. — JOHN MILTON Early in 1984, the curtain came down on my performance as CEO of VISA. The business... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1999 - 298 pages
...are not skilful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin; that virtue therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 pages
...cloistered virtue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary. . . . Assuredly 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... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat . . . that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. 1 1 Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in... | |
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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. Assuredly we bring not innocence... 
