Ipsa sui pretium virtus sibi, that Vertue is her own reward, is but a cold principle, and not able to maintain our variable resolutions in a constant and setled way of goodness.
Ipsa sui pretium virtus sibi, is but a cold principle.
Failure had made it certain that, in his strong and quaint language, "Virtus authorizandi regnum nostrae mortalitatis est contra naturam ecclesiae; ergo non est de numero virtutum suarum.
This amounts precisely to the answer of the young physician Thomas: "Quia est in eo virtus alterniva quae facit alternare.
All would reply in accordance with him: "Quia est in eo virtus pensativa quae facit pensare.
For he would find ars explained by Papias as bene recteque vivendi virtus .
Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum=--Virtue is the mean between two vices, and equally removed from either.
Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos=--It is the greatest merit of a prince to know those his subjects.
I do not doubt that your Reverence will take an interest in the work, and thus virtus unita will achieve good results.
The form of the loadstone is then superior to that of iron, which can only act through its active and passive qualities, but inferior to the plant soul, that has the powers of growth from the "virtus coeli.
That this occult power of the loadstone is a result of the direct influence of the "virtus coeli" was expounded at greater length in his treatise on the soul.
Local motion can also be caused by the "virtus coeli" generating a new form, or through the qualitative change of alteration.
We have seen above that the "motor essentialis" for terrestial change is the "virtus coeli.
Had the medicine not been previously known, they would, strange as it may seem to modern pharmacopoeists, have accorded a virtus dormitiva to the new facit dormire.
But if they had managed to serve the tree as you would like to serve homoeopathy, then it would have been 'We might have guessed it; all the virtus roborativa has settled in the bark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "virtus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
