natural virtues
Britishplural noun
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Some Renaissance thinkers praised the Indians as innocent “noble savages” whose natural virtues mocked the vices of civilized Christians, though exaggerated accounts of Indian innocence were as unrealistic as contrasting reports of Indian savagery.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
In fact, natural virtues had suddenly waxed luxuriant, and supernatural virtues were despised.
From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh
The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or natural, virtues, and those three virtues of Christianity which the Church of Rome calls virtues of grace.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
When the cinnabar has given up its quicksilver, and thus lost the natural virtues that it previously had, it becomes soft in quality and its powers are feeble.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
That many of the natural virtues have this tendency to the good of society, no one can doubt of.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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