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Example sentences for "great virtue"

  • He returned to the province of Ilocos, where he died in the year 1699 with the reputation of great virtue.

  • He was a religious of great virtue, and a man of the first magnitude; and one could write many chapters of his marvelous life, his austere penitence, his continual prayer, and his extraordinary death.

  • He was a religious of great virtue, mildness, and peaceableness.

  • He sent that letter by the priest St. Clement of Alexandria, a man of great virtue, whom God had sent into Cappadocia to instruct and govern his people during his confinement.

  • Of great virtue is the memory of the Lord's passion, which, if it be firmly held in the mind, every cloud of error and sin is dispersed.

  • It is a proof of great virtue to struggle with happiness, so that it shall not seduce, corrupt, subvert.

  • It contains, moreover, a number of striking passages, such as, "It is a proof of great virtue to struggle with happiness.

  • The companion of father Fray Juan, father Fray Pedro de Jesus or de la Bastida, a religious of great virtue, had come to the islands in the previous year, 1591, with the rest who were brought from Espana by father Fray Francisco de Morales.

  • He was astonished at the princess's great virtue, and he thought more highly of her good will than he did of the gift.

  • The auditor's wife was a professed member of our tertiary order; and all of them were people of great virtue.

  • There Palu is well received, and has "much communication with the Conde de Medellin, the president of the supreme Council of Indias, an able minister and a man of great virtue.


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