natural virtues
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Its works of righteousness, however, are often uncalled-for exaggerations of natural virtues, such as counting sacred all forms of animal and vegetable life.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong
The bodies they assume have not the natural virtues which they show, nor the operations of life, but those which are common to inanimate things.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
It gave her something like the natural virtues of mountain coolness and ocean air.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
This is not the case with the natural virtues.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
In the deepest midnight of superstition some natural virtues, like stars, have been visible in the heavens.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
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