Virtue, according to the utilitarian conception, is a good of this description.

The more the mind conceives things in their necessity, and the emotions in their reference to God, the less it is passively subject to the emotions, the more power it attains over them: "Virtue is power" (IV. def. 8; prop.

The abstract virtue of the written Constitution was not, however, a question in issue when Washington and his contemporaries set themselves to reorganize the Confederation.

The social virtue therefore which is almost a necessity of his existence is a good-humoured tolerance of the defects of average human nature.

Virtue is an effort which we make for the good of others, and with the intention of pleasing God.'

Their virtues are penances.

The more the mind conceives things in their necessity, and the emotions in their reference to God, the less it is passively subject to the emotions, the more power it attains over them: "Virtue is power" (IV. def. 8; prop.

Cordial prayer is mental virtue; Christian virtue is spiritual action.

Beauty is the common object of all love, "as jet draws a straw, so doth beauty love:" virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form, and an incorrupt judgment; those two Venus' twins, Eros and Anteros, are then most firm and fast.

"VIRTUE ([Greek: Aretahe], Virtus) as well as most of its Species, are all Feminine, perhaps from their Beauty and amiable appearance.

Virtue is the equilibrium of the fluids.

Her virtue is the hedge, modesty, that keeps a man from climbing over into her faults.

'Virtue is the next necessary Qualification for this domestick Character, as it naturally produces Constancy and mutual Esteem.

Life is a soul; The virtue and vice of it, Strife for a goal, And man's strength is the price of it.

Virtue is the art of making ourselves happy through the happiness of others.

Speaking of Vautrin she says, "His look frightens me as if he put his hand on my dress;" and another epigram from the same book, "Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."

No, the Grundy "virtues" are fast disappearing, and piano legs are once more being worn in their natural nudity.

As virtue was her guide in morality, sincerity was her guide in religion.

If our ignorance as to material things be the result of instructing the children in names, instead of enabling them to become acquainted with things, so, on the other hand, I believe we may account, in the same way to some extent, for virtue being so frequently a mere word, an empty sound, amongst men, instead of an active principle.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

[Footnote 1: In reality not only English moralists, but also some among his countrymen, had anticipated him in the position that all actions proceed from selfishness, and that virtue is merely a refined egoism.

It is true they knew enough to say that men ought to follow virtue, to conduct themselves honestly and without reproach; but all their virtues were mere paint and smoke.

And you pretend that your virtue is your own work, that you can personally claim the glory of an advantage that is liable to be taken from you at any moment?

With their loss, their virtue would be the greater.

"Integritas virtusque suo munimine tuta, Non patet adversae morsibus invidiae:" "Virtue and integrity are their own fence, Care not for envy or what comes from thence.