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
With all, moreover, Father Hecker insisted on the practice of the natural virtues, honesty, temperance, truthfulness, kindliness. courage, and manliness generally, as preceding any practical move towards the higher life.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
They had faults, great ones if you please; at the same time they knew them to be faults, and they had the natural virtues in greater or less degrees.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
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 Comfort, Will Levington
