...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. 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...

...holding a book in my nervously-shaking hands. My voice quavered a little too as I read out, "I can not 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...

...prepare the way for deeper conceptions " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, nnexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat* See also Bacon's DeAttgmentis, Book VII., chap. l. * See Zelier's Socrates and the Socratic School,...

...and Sees Her Adversary The chapter title is a play on Milton's assertion from Areopagitica that he "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...

...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...

...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. 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...

...under harsh conditions? Let them that bristle at this consider what John Milton says in Areopagitica: 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...

...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, notwithstanding dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much...

...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...

...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 into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is...