natural virtues
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Some Renaissance thinkers praised the Indians as innocent “noble savages” whose natural virtues mocked the vices of civilized Christians, though exaggerated accounts of Indian innocence were as unrealistic as contrasting reports of Indian savagery.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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 Disraeli, Isaac
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
The natural philosopher thereon hath his name; and the moral philosopher standeth upon the natural virtues, vices, or passions of man; and follow nature, saith he, therein, and thou shalt not err.
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir
Having laid down in broad terms the fundamental doctrine of the supernatural life, it is proper to say a word of the natural virtues and of their relation to the supernatural.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
