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... virtue ; to excite their desire , to encourage them to travel , to comfort them in the journey , and so at last to lead them to true felicity , both here and hereafter . I need not treat of virtues in the ordinary way , as they are ...
... virtue ; to excite their desire , to encourage them to travel , to comfort them in the journey , and so at last to lead them to true felicity , both here and hereafter . I need not treat of virtues in the ordinary way , as they are ...
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... virtues , it is very fit that we speak something of Virtue in general . Virtue is a comprehensive word , by explaining which we shall make the way more easy to the right understanding of all those particular virtues into which it is ...
... virtues , it is very fit that we speak something of Virtue in general . Virtue is a comprehensive word , by explaining which we shall make the way more easy to the right understanding of all those particular virtues into which it is ...
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... Virtues . They are called principal not only because they are the chief of all moral virtues , but because they enter into every virtue , as the four elements of which it is compounded . The less principal virtues are magnificence and ...
... Virtues . They are called principal not only because they are the chief of all moral virtues , but because they enter into every virtue , as the four elements of which it is compounded . The less principal virtues are magnificence and ...
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