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 Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Here Finn and his companions are explicitly pronounced to be saved by their natural virtues, and the relations of the Church and the Fenian warriors are most friendly.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen
With all, moreover, Father Hecker insisted on the practice of the natural virtues, honesty, temperance, truthfulness, kindliness. courage, and manliness generally, as preceding any practical move towards the higher life.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
And natural virtues, practised in the proper frame of mind and heart, become supernatural.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
When the cinnabar has given up its quicksilver, and thus lost the natural virtues that it previously had, it becomes soft in quality and its powers are feeble.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
