We of the North hold property, not by virtue of statute law, not by virtue of enactments.
To my sorrow I told the story of it to Don Fernando, for I thought that in virtue of the great friendship he bore me I was bound to conceal nothing from him.
And so, my dear love, as I know yourvirtue and your affection for me, I am entirely easy in my mind.
Virtue is not in such account as hatred of the Christians.
For it is impossible," he observes, "or not easy, to practise high virtue without abundant means.
Virtue seems to lie in a mean, between vice and vice; and as it grew out of imperfection, so to grow into enormity.
They ascribed virtueto their martyred tabernacles, and treasured, as something supernatural, their blood, their ashes, and their bones.
In the number of the articles of Catholic belief which the Reformation especially resisted, were the Mass and the sacramentalvirtue of Ecclesiastical Unity.
Womanly beauty in his hands was a plaything, womanly weakness a delight, woman’s fall a glory, and woman’s virtue a scorn.
He at once recalled the Rector of Riverdale, of whose learning and virtue he had often heard his young wife speak in terms of eloquent praise, as the very person to whom with the most perfect confidence he could entrust his child.
Seeing that it was useless to set others to teach him, my father made a virtue of necessity, and left him, if he chose, to teach himself.
Near him an innocent girl, shrinking involuntarily from her neighbor, with the instinctive antipathy of virtue for vice.
He gracelessly confessed that he had travelled under many names, and that he was known by various soubriquets that would not sound well on Fifth Avenue but still possessed the splendid virtue of being decorative.
But even doubt and uncertainty possessvirtue in that they often lead to rashness, sometimes folly.
Illustration with caption: Amy Fairweather and Flanders] Under ordinary conditions, he would have observed the singular aloofness of Miss Fairweather and the reporter who was there by virtue of an assignment.
Everywhere the exquisite mountain azalea was abloom, its delicate, subtle fragrance pervading the air as the appreciation of some noble virtue penetrates and possesses the soul, so intimate, so indissoluble, so potent of cognition.
It is substantially true, thatvirtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
If he is ambitious, it is rather of the praise which virtue dedicates to merit than of the homage which fear renders to power.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "honest man.
Mortals dear to the gods for their virtue have received from their hands lyres to give delight to man, or the seeds of new plants to make him rich, but from their inexorable lips--nothing!
The upright man who perished in the catastrophe I mentioned was there because his soul had found a peace and strength in virtue that not happiness, love, or glory could have given him.
Where shall the virtue of man find more everlasting foundation than in the seeming injustice of God?
In a morbid virtue there is often more harm than there is in a healthy vice; in any event it is farther removed from truth; and there is but little to hope for when we are divided from truth.
There must have been some moderately righteous men amongst the victims, and it seems almost certain that there was at least one whose virtue was wholly disinterested and sincere.
The hour must come when he sees that falsehood and weakness and vice are but on the surface; when his eye shall pierce through, and discover the strength, and the truth, and the virtue that lie underneath.
And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?
It may be taught to cherish the invisible, but it will ever find far more actual nourishment in the virtue or feeling that is simply and wholly human, than in the virtue or passion divine.
Whenever anything is done beyond this rule, it is in virtue of some other rule which is followed along with it, but which does not contradict it.
Mildmay therefore went to the flag-locker and drew forth the white ensign which, in virtue of his being a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Sir Reginald was entitled to fly, and ran it up to the truck of the ensign staff.
The standard of honour and virtue among our public men was, during his reign, at the very lowest point.
But it assuredly would not have been the last, perhaps it might not have been the worst, if William had not had the virtue and the firmness resolutely to withstand the importunity of his most zealous adherents.
Twenty-two Deans and fifty-four Archdeacons sate there in virtue of their offices.
But to a person whose virtue is not high toned this way of life is full of peril.
Yet our forefathers should have had the sense and the justice to acknowledge that the patriotism which they considered as a virtue in themselves, could not be a fault in him.
Even if we limit our views to this world, but extend them to all our acquaintances, we cannot doubt that the tendencies, though not always the effects, of vice are to misery, and those of virtue to happiness.
He has a right in certain rooms of the Court House, and this he has in virtue of a lease.
So much anguish Felt for so small a failure, is one merit Which faultless virtue wants.
He would have preferred that she should learn from someone else how many of the pleasures of life were slipping away from her, in virtue of the new will.
In virtue of a natural law, he will not escape, even if he could do so!
Power is only a balance or poise between virtue and vice, or a suspension between good and evil.
Though vice has for many ages reigned with unbridled licentiousness, virtue is still called virtue; and the most brutish and rash of her adversaries cannot yet deprive her of her name.
It is to make the path of virtue the natural, the easy, the pleasing one; to form a social atmosphere favourable to its development, making duty and interest as far as possible coincident.
For such reasons as these I believe it to be impossible to identify virtue with happiness, and the views of the opposite school seem to me chiefly to rest upon an unnatural and deceptive use of words.
During many centuries the ascetic and purely ecclesiastical standard of virtue completely dominated.
Its object is to make knowledge andvirtue attractive, and therefore an object of desire.
It is still more true of the smaller circle of our intimacies which will do more than almost any other thing to make the path of virtue easy or difficult.
He begged her to bear in mind that she should respect his old age, if there was any sense of virtue left in her.
There is a notice on a shut door, in the wet, and by virtue of that notice all the money that was theirs yesterday is gone away, and it may never come back again.
They may not at first be as clever with the hoe as the Bessarabian or the Bokhariot, or whatever the fashionable breed is, but they have qualities of pluck, good humour, and a certain well-wearing virtue which are not altogether bad.
Sometimes this would be the setting forth of a mystery, sometimes the clearing up of some point of faith, sometimes the denouncing of a particular vice, sometimes the endeavouring to plant some virtue in the hearts of the hearers.
When the enemy of our salvation makes us lose hope of ever advancing in virtue he has gained a great advantage over us, and may very soon succeed in thrusting us down into the abyss of vice.
Charity is the only bond between Christians, the only virtue which unites us absolutely to God, and our neighbour.
Perfumes draw me to follow them in virtue only of their sweetness.
An act of lesser virtue (for all virtues are not of equal importance) done out of great love to God is far more excellent than a rarer and grander one done with less love.
Francis, however, with marvellous adroitness, warded off the blow, leaving the great Cardinal penetrated with admiration of his virtue if without the satisfaction of gaining his compliance.
In this way the more violent are the temptations against Faith with which a soul is troubled, the more deeply does that virtue bury itself in the heart, and is there held all the more tightly and closely, because of our fear lest it escape.
The latter, indeed, considered thevirtue of obedience as the one most calculated to ensure rapid advance in the spiritual life.
And one of the best proofs of our advancement in virtue is, he said, a love of correction and reproof; for it is a sign of a good digestion easily to assimilate tough and coarse food.
What, then, becomes of acts of holy fear, and of the virtue of hope?
I take it, this party comes in virtueof the people's law, whereas it is likely the law the captain means is the king's law.
Blodget and Pliny the younger; old Pliny, in virtue of his household work, being rated as an idler.
Pliny the elder, in virtue of his years, and some experience in Indian warfare, succeeded to the command of the garrison, in the absence of its chief.
What brought ye into this paiceful sittlement, where nothing butvirtue and honesty have taken up their abode?
And yet the First-Reader Class, in all other branches of learning so receptive and responsive, made but halting and uncertain progress toward that state of virtue which is next to godliness.
If virtue consists in deadening the nervous system to all pleasurable influences, why, you may just mark my name off the list.
Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.
And in their barks my thoughts I'll character, That every eye which in this forest looks Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
To DUKE] You to your former honour I bequeath; Your patience and your virtue well deserves it.
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
Upon these and other subjects you may exercise the discretion, which we repose in you by virtue of our constitution.
Virtue cannot be the ruin of those who possess it, nor Justice the destruction of a City.
If ever the work of a scholar and an historian had the effect of a national song, this virtue may be ascribed to the Czech version of Palacky's Geschichte Böhmens.
