 | Samuel P. Nelson - 2005 - 248 Seiten
...competition between ideas.'7 He also employs military images in describing this competitive process: "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world,...bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is Triall, and Triall is by what is contrary." He later describes these trials as "Wars of Truth."'8 Truth... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 Seiten
...true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.2 Assuredly we bring not innocence into... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 Seiten
...true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.... [T]hat which purifies us is triall,... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - 2005 - 308 Seiten
...press against censorship, he tells us why it is so important for vice to be portrayed in all its power: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. .. . That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that... | |
 | Prasanta Chakravarty - 2006 - 224 Seiten
...complement to liberty: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd virtue, unexercised & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - 400 Seiten
...true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2009 - 677 Seiten
...praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,' snorted Milton, glancing over his shoulder at monks and nuns, 'unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of that race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - 2006 - 236 Seiten
...sustained?" (9.335-36) — brings to mind Milton's defense of free choice in Areopagitica, where he rejects a "cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary."88 But the arguments' resemblance is superficial. Areopagitica' s whole proposal is in fact... | |
 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 448 Seiten
...true warfaring1 Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly 135 we bring not innocence... | |
 | Jack D. Marietta - 2007 - 380 Seiten
...Spirit within and of humanitarianism. By 1756, their pacifism was becoming, to use John Milton's words, a "fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." Not until well into 1756 did tax collectors in Pennsylvania begin to demand payment and test the resolution... | |
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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. 
