Perhaps it was in these two essentially bourgeois countries that he learned the only virtues that distinguished him as the Roi Bourgeois, par excellence.
It has been the habit of defenders of the sturdy, old virtues from time immemorial to be careless of others' reputations.
She decided to be gentle, but very frank; to reprove, but also to console, and try to improve the softened moment by inspiring the culprit with a wish for all the virtueswhich make a perfect man.
On the remainder were sculptured the Christian Virtues and the Fates,--two on each column.
There are states of mind in which a contact of this kind has a depressing effect on the vital powers that makes us insensible to all the virtues and graces of the proprietor of one of these life-absorbing organs.
She carried the brimming cup of her inestimable virtues with a cautious, steady hand, and an eye always on them, to see that they did not spill.
One of the lady-patroness's peculiar virtues was calmness.
You are fond of attributing those fine qualities to Mordax," said Acer, the other day, "but I have not much belief in virtues that are always requiring to be asserted in spite of appearances against them.
They had virtues which incorporated themselves in wholesome usages to which we trace our own political blessings.
It would be more plausible to make a wonder of the virtues which have prospered among them under the shadow of oppression.
Still the historian guides us rightly in urging us to dwell on the virtues of our ancestors with emulation, and to cherish our sense of a common descent as a bond of obligation.
What is significant," he says, "is the absence of sympathic allusion to the characteristic virtues of dogs, and the abundance of allusions of an insulting kind.
The paper contains a very interesting discussion on the development of social virtues by natural selection.
The fame of their virtues reached even the French Court, and Louis XV.
Their virtues consist in a love of their country and their home, resignation to the will of the Almighty, loyalty to each other, and hospitality.
The earth grayed and greened herself anew; the planets sailed their appointed courses; the old goats died, and their virtues were perpetuated in their offspring.
I append the result of a chemical analysis I caused to be made of these incomparable Waters, that the fame of their virtues may no longer rest upon the inadequate basis of their observed effects.
But the very last time we spoke of Mr. Glyn you said he and you would never get on together, because he wanted those very virtues of solidity, and common-sense, and manly forbearance.
She is guilty; and that gentleman there, whom you have been accustomed to regard as the very pattern of all the virtues in the parish, is her accomplice.
Streams will not curb their pride The just man not to entomb, Nor lightnings go aside To give his virtues room; Nor is that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge.
Ah no, for then I shall begin to find A thousand virtues in this hated time!
It is quite in accord with the ideal established by Morris in his works of fiction, as indeed in his life, that sincerity takes the leading place among the virtues of his characters.
His own nature was too undisciplined, and he had as few of the academic virtues as any man on record of the same technical ability.
He stayed with each just long enough to understand its working principles and to make himself efficient to teach others its peculiar virtues and demands, and he then passed on.
For stern self-denial he substitutes the softer virtuesof amiability and sweetness of temper.
The Christian humility which I have all my life cultivated as the first ofvirtues sank, as it were, from under me.
The ways in which it is possible to cultivate the social virtuesare more numerous and more varied than is generally supposed.
To that monument may also be added, the candour, integrity, and unassuming virtues of the amiable author.
She inherited such of her father's virtues as compose the proper ornament of her sex; and with regard to what are termed the foibles of great souls, her highness had in no wise degenerated.
It was quite affecting--and both father and mother, softened in spite of themselves at the loss of that Maria, often would talk over the new-found virtues of their most exemplary son.
Therefore, I repeat again, we must look beyond the virtues of individuals.
Not all the virtues under heaven can suffice to make a State of this Union, or establish any claim for restoration to ancient rights, where there is failure to comply with essential requirements.
Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.
If I had had about twenty minutes' warning I could have prepared a eulogy on Sir Henry, setting forth his virtuesas a man and an actor in such a way that he never would have recognized himself, and with such eloquence that Dr.
If I cross to the neighboring Republic Blefusca--for since Swift's time it has become a Republic--I hear all these virtues suddenly qualified as Blefuscan.
He has enough quality and quantity of virtues to be a saint.
The number of virtues to be represented was limited to the number of panels, so the selection was necessarily somewhat arbitrary.
It teaches the lessons of every-day conduct and inculcates the simplest virtues of truth, earnest effort, and loving affection.
What some one says of Richardson applies to Fielding, "The virtues of his heroes are the vices of decent men.
He used often to say he was in love, but it was easy to see it was not with the beauty of one's person that he was taken, but with the virtues of his mind.
The virtues of Blaine were set forth in a famous speech by Robert G.
His successor, by qualities very different from the homely virtues which had obtained for his father among his tenantry and neighbours the surname of the Good, recommended himself to the special favor of Henry VIII.
But amongst them all, my illustrious mistress the lady Elizabeth shines like a star, excelling them more by the splendor of her virtues and her learning, than by the glory of her royal birth.
Here the three Graces presented the queen with a golden apple by the hands of their orator Mercury; there the four cardinal Virtues promised, in set speeches, that they would always be aiding and comforting to her.
He likewise ridicules the costly mineral elixirs of marvellous virtues vended by alchemical quacks; and with sounder sense in this point than usually belonged to his age, mocks at the predictions of judicial astrology.
Perhaps even the suspicions of her father might have been verified by the event, and her own royal hand might itself have become the reward of his virtues and attachment.
By this learned and munificent prelate the acquirements and virtues of Tonstal were duly appretiated and esteemed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virtues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
