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

It gave her something like the natural virtues of mountain coolness and ocean air.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington

This is not the case with the natural virtues.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

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

We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David