...to virtue and strength consists in full walking amid both, distinguishing, avoiding, and choosing. " I cannot praise a " fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, " that never sallies out to see her adversary, but slinks out of " the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not"...

...of the good," &c. What a contrast to the fused warmth which Milton infuses into the same subject. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without...

...He that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, conspicuously in regard to those which are higher, indeed, but more remote ? We have to bear in mind...

...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,...

...is melted out and separated, aud the dross cast away anj consumed. flarel. CHRISTIAN— Proofs of a. He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he ¡я the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and...

...sober men. Some of Milton's contemporaries entertained a similar ambition. They were content to cherish a " fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without...

...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with, all...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — " That virtue, there* According to the old adage : you are not hanged for stealing a horsa, but...

...ontwikkeld te worden. Door kwade boeken wordt men met de dwalingen bekend , om ze Ie kunnen bestrijden. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed that never sallies out and sees her ad"versary" etc. , p. 425 en 429 van de Works of JOHN MILTON, ed. Amst. 1698. Maar juist dit oogpunt, waaruit MILTON...

...Parliament any more than we can fence out disease and death. John Milton, Puritan as he was, did not love "a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without...

...vero habere virtutem satis rst, quasi artem aliquam, nisi uttire, and from our Milton, who says, — " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never •,llles out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that im< garland is to be run...