...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 open and gentle as day, and in gentler times would not have appeared in...

...adversary, btit shnks out ofthe race, where that immortal garland is to be run ' for, not without dust aad heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world,...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. ^That virtue therefore" WhlChis but a'ySPtigllng "in the Contemplation oPevil^and knows not the utmost that vice...

...ACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person...

...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unciereis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence in therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice...

...cloistered A! virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adI versary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice...

...following passages may serve, as a kind of stepping stones, to lead us through his general meaning. where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." " Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues!...

...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we hrinç not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial,...

...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...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost thatvice...

...cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice...

...following passages may serve, as a kind of stepping stones, to lead us through his general meaning. where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." " Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues...