 | John Reid - Christian life - 1880 - 344 pages
...slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world — we bring...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. The virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Insanity - 1880 - 612 pages
...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be rim for, not without dust or hent. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purilies us is trial, and trial is by what is coin ran*. . . . Tllat virtue therefore which is a youngling... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat Assuredly furnishes materials, but expects that we should work...gives its increase ; and when it is forced into its utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 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 - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil. 7460 Areopagitica Assuredly as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted...a cuttlefish squirting out ink. 8374 Internatlonal 7461 Areopagitica If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all... | |
 | Dee Hock - Biography & Autobiography - 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... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 196 pages
...out of the race, where that immortall 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 purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which . . . knows not the utmost that... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 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... | |
 | Roger D. Sell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 372 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...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... | |
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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... 
