I think this calamity of the mortgage, and the danger I run of dying without a roof to cover my head, may be all traced up to that one act of disobedience, I have been a mother myselfmay say I am a mother now, for my grand-daughter is as dear to me as was her blessed motherand it is when we look down, rather than when we look up, as it might be, that we get to understand the true virtue of this commandment.

I saw nobleness in dens, and meanness in palaces; virtue among prostitutes, and vice among so-called respectable women.

I learned to judge human nature correctly; to see goodness where the world found nothing but faults, and also to see faults where the world could see nothing but virtue.

Do they do this in the consciousness of their own superior virtue?

Their sole virtue was their privacy.

Such virtue had this medicine, directly it were drunken.

For many saving herbs have been found there since that day by the simple folk of that country, which from the magic philtre derived all their virtue.

There is nothing of the naive and guileless innocence of a cloistered virtue in the book, but though the serpent is very cunning his wiliness and craftiness coexist with a simple enthusiasm of humanity which is very marvellous to behold.

No very great virtue in that.

and in an other, "Ah! me; Oh! thou; O! virtue."

Murray's definition of an interjection, as I have elsewhere shown, is faulty, and directly contradicted by his example: "O virtue!

This was a favourite sentence with Murray, and he appears to have written it uniformly in this fashion; which, undoubtedly, is altogether right, except that the word "virtue" should have had a capital Vee, because the quality is here personified.

"But when the antecedent is used in a general sense, a comma is properly inserted before the relative; as, 'There is no charm in the female sex, which can supply the place of virtue.

"Take, for instance, this sentence, 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.

'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.'"Ib., p. 110.

"Oh! virtue, how amiable thou art!"Hallock's Gram., p. 191; O. B. Peirce's, 375.

"Indeed, in the formation of character, personal exertion is the first, the second, and the third virtue.

There are two great departments of virtue: the impulsive, or that which springs spontaneously from the emotions, and the deliberative, or that which is performed in obedience to the sense of duty; and in both of these I imagine women are superior to men.

"That was virtue to go crazy about, come now!

But he had known how to adjust his life to duty; and without belief in God, with the support of philosophy only, his virtue had been strong enough to disarm his most violent enemies.

The only one there who had spoken with any real sincerity, any real virtue, was that little old man, whom she had listened to with veneration because he had been one of her father's idols!

The virtue of this jest.

"This man centered all his affections in me; he looked upon me as a forlorn and suffering creature, and he became, to me, the most thoughtful mother, the most considerate benefactor, the ideal of the virtue which rejoices in its own work.

That there should have been found critics to combine just but wholly otiose condemnation of Cloe with reverential appreciation of the absurdities of Clorin and Thenot, and to clap applause to the self-conscious virtue, little removed from smugness, in which the 'moral grandeur' of the Lady of the Ludlow masque is clothed, is indeed a striking witness to the tyranny of conventional morality.

[270] I quote, of course, from Dyce's text, but have for convenience added the line numbers from F. W. Moorman's edition in the 'Temple Dramatists.' The officious critic must be forgiven for remarking that the satyr is not, as might be supposed from this speech, suddenly tamed by Clorin's beauty and virtue, but shows himself throughout as of a naturally gentle disposition.