How To Use Virtue In A Sentence
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Wilkins is now extolling the virtues of organic farming.
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We are so strict with our physical intactness . It is certainly more important that a man to keep his intact virtue.
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Rather than a traditional neoliberal who tries to extol the virtues of trade, he prefers to just ignore its impact entirely.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Ever-Bigger Government
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While it's no surprise that this script is based on Nelson's own play, given the perfectly measured arguments, the film is never short on cinematic virtues.
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'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Since this difference of aspect in the object differentiates the species of virtue, it seems that dulia is divided into specifically different virtues.
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Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities].
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At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
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Therefore _synesis_ extends to all matters of judgment, and consequently there is no other virtue of good judgment called _gnome.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Faustianism, in the modern sense of endless questing, had come to be regarded as a virtue.
MOTIF
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Supported by an angelic chorus and lush orchestration, Gibb extolled the virtues of "fingering foreign dirty holes," arguing that while love may be grand, he'd rather "let 'coupledom' die
Spinner
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Virtue is the only true nobility.
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At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see.
Les Miserables
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From those two virtues derive the tranquillity, comfort, and content of domesticity.
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Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive.
This Is the End
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The status of a character trait as a virtue need not be a fixed matter, but a matter complexly interrelated with the sort of society in which it appears.
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We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
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A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc.
Substance
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Would there be any virtue in taking an earlier train?
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He'd seen this face dozens of times, smiling out from the TV screen, extolling the virtues of shampoo.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.
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But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue.
Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
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The flip side of virtue is pride.
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What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How has the UK moved from being a nation that held up thrift as a virtue and considered debt a vice, to owing a trillion pounds on mortgages, credit cards and other loans?
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Virtue does not consist in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
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not everyone regards humility as a virtue
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He said they were very good and D agreed, which just shows that virtue is its own reward.
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This game is superior in complexity to English draughts by virtue of the fact that it is played on a board ten squares by ten squares and that capturing moves have an extended scope.
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Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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Kindness is an underrated virtue altogether in my humble opinion.
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There is a lot to be said for the manly virtues - courage, stoicism and strength.
The Sun
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Roman Catholic Church. immune from fallacy or liability to error in expounding matters of faith or morals by virtue of the promise made by Christ to the Church.
The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
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Ready availability being the most precious of Prohibition virtues, gin was lifted above the historical pedigree that led Willa Cather to call it “the consolation of sailors and inebriate scrub-women.”
LAST CALL
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As fire tries gold,so does adversity try virtue.
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I do agree with you in that "the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue".
Modern world: a desert of God
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She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.
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Patience was not one of her virtues.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story that I want to tell is the story of liberty, equality and fraternity, which seemed to me to be the governing virtues of the order today.
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He provides a degree of unity to the piece, by virtue of his repeated appearances.
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In much of today's Western culture, virtuousness is primarily associated with exaggerated propriety, but in past centuries virtue was of immense importance as a pivotal principle of religious, ethical and political thought.
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During the National Civic Virtues Month, all the cities should and banish disarray and discourtesy.
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And the action, therefore, which Pliny denominated obstinacy, would, if it had been left to us to name it, have been called inflexible virtue, as arising out of a sense of the obligations imposed upon them by the Christian religion.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
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The proper external conduct of the body - such as the wearing of the robe neatly, good deportment, downcast eyes, and observation of good behaviour - is frequently seen as evidence for a state of virtue.
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The positive virtues are those of many a New England area: clear air, swimmable sea, home-grown tomatoes.
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The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
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The dilemma, like all ethical dilemmas, arose by virtue of a conflict between values.
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Thus, it is through delegation a jure, that is in virtue of jurisdiction granted by the Council of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The same apprenticeship ought to make a man both capable of virtue and capable of exercising power.
Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
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There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
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The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been.
The Silent Superstar
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But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true.
Flashman and the Dragon
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In the ancient world, courage, moderation, and justice were prime species of moral virtue.
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Its great virtue is that it does not flower, making its silver, filigree foliage effect particularly clean and telling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Submitting to the Lord's will, the mortal is blessed with all virtues and gnosis and he obtains honor in the Lord's court.
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Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land.
Benjamin Franklin
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace
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Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?
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Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
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Her lips curved into a content smile thinking about them, their strength, happiness, and virtue.
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'Not altogether,' said the old man; 'besides being a viper-hunter, I am what they call a herbalist, one who knows the virtue of particular herbs; I gather them at the proper season, to make medicines with for the sick.'
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
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Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
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Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience?
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It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
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He is even a member of a club called the Boosters, whose sole purpose is to celebrate and vaunt Zenith's virtues wherever possible.
Books on Disgrace
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In witness whereof we the undersigned, their ministers plenipotentiary, have in their name and in virtue of our full powers, signed with our hands the present definitive treaty and caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto.
Your History Moment: The Treaty of Paris « Third Point of Singularity
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Virtue is beyond price.
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I will not judge any of them for it is not my place to judge the sins and virtues of my fellow man.
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Mr Bolton is eager to extol the virtues of geographical studies.
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The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
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Like most currents of what we call "revivalism," it usually had an erotic side; and the larger temples frequently have attached to them female staffs of attendant votaries and _corps de ballet_ of very easy virtue.
Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
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Make a virtue of your tenacity, or overwhelmingly feel that life is too short?
Times, Sunday Times
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* The term virtue* is employed in various senses, which, though they cover
A Manual of Moral Philosophy
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Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all…
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He was exempt from charges by virtue of his youth/of being so young/of the fact that he was so young.
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The new system has the virtue of a lowered rate of tax, a simple method of computation, and an equitable spread.
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Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
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Instead of writing in opposition to your nemesis, write in favor of your cause; instead of calling the boneheaded author's integrity into question, extol the virtues of those who oppose that person; instead of pointing out flaws in the author's logic, create a flawless argument of your own.
Edward Muzio: The Power of Shutting Up in the Internet Age
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Currado, began to consider Giannotto and some remembrance of the boyish lineaments of her son's countenance being by occult virtue awakened in her, without awaiting farther explanation, she ran, open-armed, to cast herself upon his neck, nor did overabounding emotion and maternal joy suffer her to say a word; nay, they so locked up all her senses that she fell into her son's arms, as if dead.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Today's Republicans extol the virtues of freedom, as they simultaneously and occasionally promote "there ought to be a law"-ism.
Robert Eisinger: Redefining Conservative Consistency
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Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
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There is no inherent virtue in having read all the latest books.
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In a matter of decades, Makiki's artistic focus had shifted from the virtues of the Madonna to the transgressions of the whore.
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Among her many virtues are loyalty,spunk,and truthfulness.
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With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own soul, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection!
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
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But that wouldn't be our Phillip, honesty not being a virtue on which he places much value.
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I filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess, but error.
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Inasmuch as you are more noble than others by birth, so should you be more noble than they by virtues," adding that, "few great men have gained renown for prowess and virtue who did not entertain love for some dame or damoiselle.
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.
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Even good ideas are frequently contained in banal packages that neutralize the virtues they possess.
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But the Chancellor has never been shy of talking about the need for moral and civic virtue and his welfare policy is positively Presbyterian in its emphasis on salvation by work.
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I'll bet most of you reading this can relate to the struggle back and forth: indulgence vs. virtue, comfort food vs. fitness fuel.
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Women have often been used as symbols of virtue.
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There is something playfully provocative about a man extolling the virtues of privacy while surrounded by a cabal of at least 20 people.
Times, Sunday Times
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First comes the long, learned or at least verisimilar discourse on the virtue of one item versus another, followed by effusive congratulations on the discernment and taste evident in the customer's choice.
The Charms and Trials of Italian Shopping
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All virtue is contained in autonomy, all vice in its absence, and all morality is summarized in the imperatives that guide the will.
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It demands a kind of distance from the observer, an objective evaluation of its virtues and failings.
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Perhaps the main fault of the book is also its strongest virtue, its ambitiousness.
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It is, doubtless, in humble imitation of such illustrious examples, that an Irishman of the lowest class, when he means to express that he is a member of a committee, says, _I am a committee_; thus consolidating the power, wisdom, and virtue of a whole committee in his own person.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate.
The Mother's Book
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Our increased knowledge of hygiene has transformed resignation and inaction in face of epidemic disease from a religious virtue to a justly punishable offence.
Infinite in All Directions
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Thus contemporary virtue ethics needs a notion of moral character apt for the twenty-first century.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.
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The plan has the virtue of simplicity.
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. John Steinbeck
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Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Among her many virtues are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
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The tribal land-owning corporations are themselves patrilineal descent groups or lineages whose members acquire rights by virtue of being the sons and daughters of a particular man.
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Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
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Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
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The rhapsody draws a moral from the mundane machine; Zhang Shunmin sees in the mechanical movement of the mill the steady moral virtue of the scholar-official.
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Now, it is true that virtue and chastity are not the same thing but, like any of the natural appetites, a question of moderation is involved.
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HITS Very accurate and ultrareliable, it retains the virtues of the original model — fine balance (even with the heavy barrel) and simplicity.
David E.
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In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
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By virtue of the same right, if the demesne of a lord was so placed that it had no natural height from which to survey its extent, his vassals were made to bring sufficient cart-loads of earth to raise a mound or "motte" of the requisite elevation.
Brittany & Its Byways
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Impartial rule theory, casuistry, and virtue ethics are all consistent with rather than rivals of a principle-based account when it is properly conceived.
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Klein, a corporate lawyer and political apparatchik, is here to spruik the virtues of Gillard's wacky plan to publish a rating system for schools.
Aussies to Klein: Political Apparatchik, Go Home
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No longer are you just up against the straight-A kid who lettered in four sports and whose minister wrote a letter praising his virtues.
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And having deduced 'that good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit,' he returns 'to that good of man which respects and beholds society,' which he terms DUTY, because the term of duty is more proper to a mind well framed and disposed towards others, as the term of VIRTUE is applied to a mind well formed and composed in itself; though neither can a man understand _virtue, without some relation to society_, nor _duty, without an inward disposition_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
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However, what I really have in mind is something Ancient, and is really captured by terms like 'virtue' and 'wisdom' and (perhaps most of all) "eudaimonia"; and the thinkers I am leaning on are first, Alasdair MacIntyre, and second, Martha Nussbaum (and behind them both lies Aristotle).
What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
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If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.
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The happiness we get in exchange for virtue could happen on the spot or in the future.
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She became a British resident by virtue of her marriage.
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Sure, trust-loving lawyers are now touting the nontax virtues of trusts--protecting assets from creditors, from those who prey on the elderly and from a new spouse if a widow remarries.
Married, With Assets
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Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm.
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
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He also knows how to keep them in order without getting annoyed - a virtue some parents would dearly love.
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We have precursors: modern choanoflagellates show that protists can find selective advantage in transient assemblies, colonial organisms show the virtues of more permanent arrangements, and creatures like sponges exhibit cooperativity and specialization in internal function.
Planet Atheism
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He said the Prime Minister would have to make a virtue of his 'cragginess'.
Home | Mail Online
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This is no sense at all of the faithfulness of God, neither is the word ever used in Scripture to signify any such thing in God or man, nor can it with any tolerable sense be applied to any such thing; neither would there be any analogy between that which in God we call faithfulness and that virtue in man which is so termed.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Several pages of this book recall the salutary rigour of the Dragonades; and that odious passage, in which a man distinguished for his talents and his private virtues, the Count de Maistre (Soirees de St. Petersbourg tome 2 page 121) justifies the Inquisition of Portugal “which he observes has only caused some drops of guilty blood to flow.”
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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After a period of such mutual abstention it became a virtue, like an oath of chastity.
FAIRYLAND
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His summaries of the world's problems are so well put that one feels they have been solved merely by virtue of the fact that he has described them.
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That the claimant was deemed to have by virtue of the experience gained and examinations passed in the police force.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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In poetic words of dazzling imagery, the bards extolled the tribal virtues of honour, courage, generosity, fidelity and revenge.
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The result turned out to be so hard to understand that the novel acquired an aura of profundity by virtue of its sheer incomprehensibility.
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No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous.
Memorabilia
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Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
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The shark will be back and if you can't pay, he'll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs.
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The 76th amino acid may contribute to the PfCRT's function as a CQR determinant in P. falciparum by virtue of its effect on the CQ transport activity across the food vacuole membrane.
Behe Responds
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I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
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At a time when so many carpet-makers are turning to artificial dyes, he extols the virtues of the old ways.
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Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
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Faith in American virtue remains intact, and the erasure of collective memory is stunning.
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With this approach, only particles visible by virtue of their tinctorial characteristics were counted.
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The natural glutin is produced while the slim, fluted, inch-long seeds are green, but its virtue remains even after the whole panicle has withered and has fallen.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Leaving the boundary between human life and nature ambiguous is a Japanese virtue.
Shell Villa by ARTechnic Architects
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Whilst I am being held by the sleep of despair and darkened with the mist of malice, do thou, O precursor, restore me with thy bright intercession and grant that I may beseemingly walk as in the clay of virtues.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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I don't think it is wrong, or a waste of time, to point out the virtue of manners and good behaviour.
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And yet that tradition's peculiar virtues - understatement, plainness, a willingness to explain one's ideas - create the effects here which will surprise Americans most.
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Of course, by virtue of association, your friend's shameless ogling makes you look just as desperate, most likely to the very people you might otherwise have had a shot with.
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He was exempt from charges by virtue of his youth/of being so young/of the fact that he was so young.
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Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue.
He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room
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It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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His unselfish and noble virtues have earned him huge respect across all shades of political opinion.
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Nor are Europeans thrilled about the American values they feel Mr. Bush has encouraged, in which anti-Europeanism is applauded as a virtue, people boycott French wine in protest at the French position on Iraq and Senator Kerry is ridiculed by the Republicans for being able to speak French.
Balkinization
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He kept in by being an oak, not by being a willow, by a constancy in virtue, not by a pliableness to vice.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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It contains within itself a complete gradation from fashionable excellence to fashionable villany; from fashionable virtue to fashionable vice; fashionable ladies and gentlemen, fashionable pimps, demireps, and profligates.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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Read _Romeo and Juliet_; — all is youth and spring; — youth with its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies; — spring with its odours, its flowers, and its transiency; it is one and the same feeling that commences, goes through, and ends the play.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
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To-morrow we shall arrive at a mountain of black stone, called loadstone: the current is now bearing us violently toward it, and the ships will fall in pieces, and every nail in them will fly to the mountain, and adhere to it; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted toward it.
The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
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Die Idee ist simpel - anstatt die eigene Kreditkartennummer anzugeben, generiert man schnell seine persönliche virtuelle Kreditkartenummer und dies für … buy cheap Says:
Paypal Launches Virtual Debt Card. « The Paradigm Shift
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At a very remote period he must also have recognized that force moves along the line of least resistance, and in virtue thereof, placed upon his craft rude keels which enabled him to beat to windward in a seaway.
The Shrinkage of the Planet
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The government is creating a force that will suppress the criminally influential, but many have escaped the blacklist whether through influence or virtue.
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It is called pawpaw by the natives, who regard it highly for the sake of its one peculiar virtue.
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades
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It began with aarti ( "toward virtue" in Sanskrit), the Hindu sunset worship, at the very small Nandeshwari Temple on the grounds of the hotel.
Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India
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Love is the touchstone of virtue.
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The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
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Quoting Proverbs, the priest said virtue would elevate a nation to a higher plane, while vice would degrade it.
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All that in a happier field and a purer air would expand into virtue and germinate into usefulness, is thus converted into henbane and deadly nightshade.
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Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company.
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It is anything but easy to remould a lady of easy virtue.
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And in this time of Pasque our mother holy church ne doth but joy and maketh solation for the resurrection of Jesu Christ, and therefore is then said: Alleluia, which signifieth joy and consolation, for after that creature hath done penance by virtue of humility in weepings and lamentations he must lead after, joy and very consolation.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities].
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As the recitals to the Policy make clear, the appellant by virtue of the Policy is entitled to be a member of the Society.
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The allegorist assumes that, when virtue imitates vice at the moment of attack, it can, by that very isomorphic imitation, destroy its opposite.
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It is also widely held that in addition to having such properties as reference, truth-conditions and truth ” so-called extensional properties ” expressions of natural languages also have intensional properties, in virtue of expressing properties or propositions ” i.e., in virtue of having meanings or senses, where two expressions may have the same reference, truth-conditions or truth value, yet express different properties or propositions (Frege 1892/1997).
Mental Representation
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Take some time to reflect on your past virtues and misdeeds.
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In the eighth century we read (Vita Stephani, III) of the most ancient custom in virtue of which seven of these bishops, called hebdomadarii, celebrated Mass in turn in place of the pope and were called episcopi cardinales, from being permanently attached to the cardo, that is the cathedral church of Rome; but we are not told who they were.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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Do we want a society where appearance takes precedence over skill or virtue?
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Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
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It is by goodness and piety that man reaches perfect happiness: virtue is its own reward.
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Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels).
Archive 2007-09-01
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Ambition, in a private man a vice, is in a prince, a virtue.
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This at least has the virtue of historical accuracy.
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Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
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In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
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Ah, there were the terrible, the incontrovertible consequences of his lapse from virtue.
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And this entitles the precept, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself_, to the pre-eminence given to it, and is a justification of the apostle's assertion, that all other commandments are comprehended in it, whatever cautions and restrictions {28} there are, which might require to be considered, if we were to state particularly and at length what is virtue and right behaviour in mankind.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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He is 18 and has time on his side, but as we have seen in the intemperance of his play, patience is not one of his virtues.
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Plastic has many virtues.
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In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man ought not to give way to the ill-affected, or expose the government to those that are incapable of it, nor suffer high trusts to be committed to those who want common honesty.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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The opening sections read more like a self-help manual, espousing the virtues of self-employment for spiritual growth.
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Utility per se ranked below entertainment as a virtue.
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Yet in the very midst of these vices which had rendered his honesty dubious, and name bespotted, he nurtured in the depths of his soul three virtues capable of again elevating him -- an unshaken love for a young girl, whom he married in spite of his family,
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
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A callow president had the sense to surround himself with people who had three great virtues.
