natural virtues
Example Sentences
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As glory does not destroy our nature, neither does it destroy our natural virtues, but perfects them.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux
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
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
In fact, natural virtues had suddenly waxed luxuriant, and supernatural virtues were despised.
From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
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 Sir Philip Sidney
