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

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

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

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

He may indeed practise some natural virtues, but these virtues are in general only exterior.

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael