 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1903 - 92 pages
...out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without duft and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank vertue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 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 much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
 | Baptists - 1863 - 868 pages
...inevitably result from this course of conduct. To quote the words of the immortal Milton, " Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; thai which purifies «* ig trial, and trial is by what is contrary." Devotion to dutv. eg, is a virtue... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - History - 1991 - 402 pages
...implicates it more thoroughly with the good: 'We know good only by means of evil' (xv. ii5), while 'that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (Prose Works, ii. 5t5; cf. 517-8). Indicated here is the potentially punitive and paranoid dimension... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...knowing the good by evil, for Milton knows his readers' eyes are already opened by sin: "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather" (CP, 2.515). Instead, Areopagitica endorses the notion that fallen humanity knows good by evil through... | |
 | Lee Blessing - AIDS (Disease) - 1993 - 52 pages
...costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven. — Camus, La Chute Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. — Milton, AreopagUica PATIENT A was first produced at Signature... | |
 | Geoffrey Martin Hodgson - Business & Economics - 1996 - 398 pages
...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 impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. A beautiful modern example, on the theme of suffering and... | |
 | Thomas Barr Greenfield, Peter Ribbins - Education - 1993 - 312 pages
...the Areopagitica is found as Milton addresses the question of how truth is to be known: 'Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.'8 Milton spoke out against the truth makers who operate out... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...important new emphasis on the notion of trial (as in Milton's famous argument in Areopagitica that 'that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' 40 ). Laon and Cythna, then, do not only aspire to private excellence: they are 'devoted to the love... | |
 | William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 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 impurity much rather That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
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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... 
