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
Its works of righteousness, however, are often uncalled-for exaggerations of natural virtues, such as counting sacred all forms of animal and vegetable life.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins
This is not the case with the natural virtues.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
In the deepest midnight of superstition some natural virtues, like stars, have been visible in the heavens.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
They had faults, great ones if you please; at the same time they knew them to be faults, and they had the natural virtues in greater or less degrees.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
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