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
She began the catalogue of her natural virtues.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
In the deepest midnight of superstition some natural virtues, like stars, have been visible in the heavens.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
This is not the case with the natural virtues.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
That many of the natural virtues have this tendency to the good of society, no one can doubt of.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
