Beyond that they become destructive of public virtue, the parent of a spirit antagonist to that of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror.
The mass of the Romans ceased to perform military duty, and there being no great public duty except military duty to be performed, there remained no school of public virtue.
If Cato survived in the tradition of public virtue, so did Cicero in the tradition of culture, which saved the empire of the Caesars from being an empire of Moguls.
The empire could never call forth even the lowest form of public virtue, loyalty to the hereditary right of a royal family, because the empire never presented itself as a right, but merely as a personal power.
Pass not on Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public virtue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.