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
She began the catalogue of her natural virtues.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good.
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
I mean no natural virtue, because all the natural virtues existed and had been practiced by hundreds and thousands of millions before Christ was born.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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