nobleness

Example Sentences

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Nobleness of feature and sweetness of expression are surely as delightful in age as in youth.

From Our Village by Mitford, Mary Russell

Nobleness in thee shall bring out in answer nobleness in him, and if not, thou hast done thy duty, and the Lord judge between him and thee.

From True Words for Brave Men by Kingsley, Charles

Preaching, by zealous Polacks, must have been going on, while Adalbert, Bright in Nobleness, was studying at Magdeburg, and ripening for high things in the general estimation.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas

The second are rules whose only external support is Rewards; constituting Optional Morality, Merit, Virtue, or Nobleness.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

We construct our theory of Human Duties, not on any Greatest- Nobleness Principle, never so mistaken; no, but on a Greatest- Happiness Principle.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas