Not far from these, a quack from one scaffold was descanting on the virtues of his medicines, whilst a preacher from another was holding forth to the graver part of the crowd, the joys and terrors of another life; and yet farther on, a motley groupe were listening to a blind beggar, who was singing to the music of a sort of rude guitar.

Perhaps it was to shew the full efficacy of this virtue in all its lustre, that Heaven allotted to this excellent personage a domestic calamity, which appears (to borrow an expression from a great writer) 'of an unconscionable size to human strength.'

The Druids were likewise able to communicate, by consecration, the most portentous virtues to rocks and stones, which could determine the succession of princes or the fate of empires.

She never tires of pointing out his virtues as an example to her sons.

The lion, (Leo [symbol: Leo]) was to produce heroes; and the virgin (Virgo [symbol: Virgo]) with her ear of corn to inspire chastity, and to unite virtue with abundance.

He could make his readers hate sin by the same means Demosthenes made his hearers hate Philip, and love any virtue by appropriating the methods of Cicero Pro Archia.

Go in and pray to the chaste Powers above To give you Virtue for such Rewards.

There is indeed no more certain sign of a mind utterly debauched from piety and virtue than by affecting such talk.

Then began that burst of British virtue on which Macaulay has expatiated, and at which the social critics of the continent have laughed.

Shamans of the highest virtue from all quarters, and students, inquirers wishing to find out truth and the grounds of it, all resort to these monasteries.

He gave a new proof of the melancholy fact that circumstances may transform the most apparent qualities of virtue into those opposite vices between which human wisdom is baffled when it attempts to draw a decided and invariable line.

Rail on, till you have made me think my Virtue at so low Ebb, it should submit to you.

His cigarette was still aglow; good Turkish has this virtue among many others, that left to itself it will burn on to the end of its roll.

" Gerarde notices this curious belief, and tells us that, "the leaves of this tree are so great virtue against serpents that they dare not so much as touch the morning and evening shadows of the tree, but shun them afar off.

not a virtue under heaven But what was made an engine to ensnare thee; But yet I trust, Idonea, thou art safe.

He can have all the virtues without the fetich, and he may have the fetich and all the vices beside.

They admire him, for virtues like their own, for contempt of order, and violence of outrage; for rage of defamation, and audacity of falsehood.

" I call that an excitation of virtue through a horror of vice, as the author himself calls it, and which the reader, no longer perplexed, cannot fail to see, unless influenced by ill-will.

Twenty suns did rise and set, And he could no further get; But, unable to proceed, Made a virtue out of need,

"We'll divide the virtues between us; won't we, Amy?" exclaimed Grace, putting her head on the other's shoulder.

Truly the career of Madame de Maintenon was a triumph of virtue over vice; and yet of all that heedless, wanton throng, my soul detests only her.

Such days have in themselves, of necessity, no virtue above other days; and yet a tender interest clings to them simply as the last.

The special attention of students should be drawn to this wider range of the idea of Virtue amongst the ancients, as otherwise it might easily be a source of secret perplexity.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

This is the first problem that is set before each man: to rise above his raceto be the culmination of virtue until now.