"Vertu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... glad to be once more with a thorough musician, not with those half-virtuosos and half-classics who would gladly combine in music les honneurs de la vertu et les plaisirs du vice, but with one who has his perfect and well-defined genre [Richtung]. To whatever extent it may differ from mine, I can get on with it famously; but not with those half-men. The Sunday evening was really curious when Chopin made me play over my ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... la mission s'annoncer au peuple que la divinite n'existe pas? Quel avantage trouves-tu a persuader a l'homme qu'une force aveugle preside a ses destinees et frappe au hasard le crime et la vertu?—Robespierre, "Discours," Mai ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... with much company and made dishes, by acting as perpetual president of the table-d'hote at the Well. Here he used to amuse the society by telling stories about Garrick, Foote, Bonnel Thornton, and Lord Kelly, and delivering his opinions in matters of taste and vertu. An excellent carver, he knew how to help each guest to what was precisely his due; and never failed to reserve a proper slice as the reward of his own labours. To conclude, he was possessed of some taste in the fine arts, at least in painting and music, although it was rather of the technical ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... the rain reveals the crystals, as it does the flint instruments called 'thunderbolts' in many countries. 'Lorsqu'ils squillent, ils ont une de ces pierres au coing de leurs tablettes, disans qu'elle a la vertu de faire faire operation a leur figure de geomance.' Probably they used the crystals as do the Apaches. On July 15 a Malagasy woman viewed, whether in her crystal or otherwise, two French vessels which, ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
... laate or ellys raathe. And for oure partye, the worthy Wyff of Bathe Cane shewe statutes moo than six of seven Howe wyves make hir housbandes wynne heven, [170] Maugre the feonde and al his vyolence. For theyre vertu of parfyte pacyence Partenethe not to wyves nowe adayes, Sauf on theyre housbandes for to make assayes. Ther pacyence was buryed long agoo, Gresyldes story ...
— The Disguising at Hertford • John Lydgate
... Gouverneur, qui estimoit sa vertu, desira qu'il fust enterre pres du corps de feu Monsieur de Champlain, qui est dans vn sepulchre particulier, erige expres pour honorer la memoire de ce signale personnage qui a tant oblige la Nouuelle ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... says D'Alembert, "a caracterise lui-meme en peu de mots cette simplicite qui se rendoit si cher a tous les coeurs, 'La simplicite est la droiture d'une ame qui s'interdit tout retour sur elle et sur ses actions—cette vertu est differente de la sincerite, et la surpasse. On voit beaucoup de gens qui sont sinceres sans etre simples—Ils ne veulent passer que pour ce qu'ils sont, mais ils craignent sans cesse de passer pour ce qu'ils ne sont pas. L'homme simple n'affecte ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... bygynyth a charme for to staunch ye blood. In nomine Patris, etc. Whanne oure Lord was don on ye crosse yane come Longeus thedyr and smot hym yt a spere in hys syde. Blod and water yer come owte at ye wonde, and he wyppyd hys eyne and anon he sawgh kyth thorowgh ye vertu of yat God. Yerfore I conjure the blood yat yu come not oute of yis christen woman. In nomine ...
— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence
... "hight Politessa," and whose blandishments the knight resists. Thence he is conducted to a stately castle (the court of Louis XV. whose minister—perhaps Cardinal Fleury?—is "an old and rankled mage"); and finally to Rome, where a lady yclept Vertu holds court in the ruins of the Colosseum, among mimes, fiddlers, pipers, eunuchs, painters, ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... l'Italie en cendre Me feront honorer Sylla? J'admirerai dans Alexandre Ce que j'abhorre en Attila? J'appellerai vertu guerrire Une vaillance meurtrire Qui dans mon sang trempe ses mains; Et je pourrai forcer ma bouche A louer un hros farouche, N pour le malheur ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... pice. L'offre tait sduisante. Ledoux se souvint qu' la reprsentation des Vpres Siciliennes[1] Nantes, il avait vu bon nombre de gens gros et gras entrer dans un parterre dj plein, et parvenir cependant s'y asseoir, en vertu de la compressibilit des corps humains. Il prit les vingt plus sveltes des ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... be quiet! be silent! be still! shut up![rude]; chup[obs3]! chup rao[obs3]! tace[It]! Phr. one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop, so quiet you could hear a pin drop; grosse Seelen dulden still [German]; le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages [French]; le silence est le parti le plus sar de celui se dfie de soi-meme[French]; "silence more musical than any song " [C. G. Rossetti]; tacent satis laudant[Latin]; better to be silent ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... remarks on Condorcet (Phil. Pos. iv. 185-193): 'Le progres total finalement accompli ne peut etre sans doute que le resultat general de l'accumulation spontanee des divers progres partiels successivement realises depuis l'origine de la civilisation, en vertu de la marche successivement lente et graduelle de la nature humaine;' so that Condorcet's picture presents a standing miracle, 'ou l'on s'est meme interdit d'abord la ressource vulgaire de la Providence.' Comte's criticism, however, seems to leave out of sight what full justice Condorcet did ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley
... ending, the president in his scarlat robes (for they war al so that day wt their 4 nooked black bonnets lined wt scarlet) began a very weill conceaved harangue in the commendation of justice and vertu. That being done they gave their oath wt the Advocats and procureurs or Agents (for they swear anew every sitting doune of the Palais, when we give but one oath for all wt us and that at the entry vnto to the office); the judges ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... death of mind, the Italians produce nothing for export. In that country there are no factories, no mining operations, no ship-building, no public works, no printing presses, no tools of trade. In short, they create nothing but a few articles of vertu; and even in those arts in which alone their genius is allowed to exert itself, foreigners excel them. The best sculptors and painters at Rome are Englishmen. And as regards their soil, which might send its wheat, and wine, and olives, all delicious naturally, ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie
... bizarre inconstance, Mon concur lui saura gre' du bien qu'elle me fait Veut'elle en d'autres lieux marquer sa bienvellance, Je lui remets ses dons sans chagrin, sans regret. Plein d'une vertu plus forte J'epouse la pauvrete' Si pour dot elle ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... sythen youre tendre infancie Stondeth as yett vndir yndyff[e]rence, To vice or vertu to moven[1] or Applie, 3 [Sidenote 1: MS. coorven] And in suche Age ther is no prouidence, Ne comenly no sadde intelligence, But ryght as wax receyueth printe and figure, So chylder ben ...
— Caxton's Book of Curtesye • Frederick J. Furnivall
... woman, sober and continente, her vertues be a continuall pleasure, a passyng ioye. In ma- riage ought to be greate deliberacion, whom thou chosest to thy continuall compainie or felowshippe, her life paste well knowen, her parentes and kindrede how honeste and vertu- ous, her maners, her fame, how commendable, her counti- [Sidenote: The choise of a wife.] naunce sober, a constaunt iye, and with shamefastnes beau- tified, a mouthe vttering fewe woordes discretlie. ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... determines par la loi et selon les formes qu'elle a prescrites. Ceux qui sollicitent, expedient, executent ou font executer des ordres arbitraires, doivent etre punis; mais tout citoyen appele ou saisi en vertu de la loi doit obeir a l'instant; il se ...
— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek
... quelque chose assurement: mais n'est-il pas infiniment plus deshonorant de ne l'avoir point, qu'il n'est honorable de l'avoir? Il ne semble pas qu'il y ait tant a vanter la possession d'un attribut qu'il serait degradant de ne pas posseder: c'est une vertu negative. La condition du peuple etait pitoyable: entre le status des enfants des fabriques et l'esclavage, il etait difficile d'apercevoir une difference. A Bedlam, les alienes etaient enchaines a leurs lits de paille, en 1828, et du samedi au lundi ils etaient ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... de qui la vertu Etait moins que la table encensee; On ne plaint point la femme abattue, ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... time to examine, but, saying I must look at them some other day, insisted upon my admiring the little jewelled watch she had purchased in Geneva; and then she took me round the room to point out sundry articles of vertu she had brought from Italy: an elegant little timepiece, and several busts, small graceful figures, and vases, all beautifully carved in white marble. She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... WELLWYN in his ulster and soft hat, is squatting on the little stool in front of the blazing fire, staring into it, and smoking a hand-made cigarette. He has a moulting air. Behind him the humble-men pass, embracing busts and other articles of vertu. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Hubert, apotre des Ardennes, fut son protecteur et lui donna son nom. Il lui obtint les plus heureuses dispositions pour la vertu. Lui aussi herita du pouvoir de guerir ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten
... expression, and of manners in France. A lover of his nation confesses that even in "galantes aventures l'esprit prenait la place du coeur, la fantaisie celle du sentiment." Voltaire's creed was, that "le mensonge n'est un vice que quand il fait du mal; c'est une grande vertu quand il fait du bien." "L'exagration" says De Maistre, "est ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... design and finish, should serve for afternoon tea, and a pretty desk stand near a window, with writing materials for the use of guests. There should be a clock upon the mantelpiece, and a few other articles of vertu, such as a vase or so, a bronze statuette, etc., all harmonized by the common possession ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller
... at all other tymes; and for asmuch as We be enformed that the sermons in latin which ever before this tyme, save now of late, be now gretly discontynued, to the gret hurt and disworship of the same, We therefore, desiring right affecturusely the increse of vertu and cunning in oure said Universite, wol and commande you straitly that ye with ripe and suffisant maturite, advise a sure remede in that party, by the which such sermons may thereafter be continued and inviolably observed, wherein ye shal do unto Us right singulier ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell
... Suisse, de meme que les Suisses etablis en France en vertu du traite de 1803, continueront a jouir des droits qui leur etaient acquis. Toutes les dispositions de la presente convention ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... Maupertuis, Que notre vie est peu de chose! Cette fleur, qui brille aujourd'hui Demain se fane a peine eclose; Tout perit, tout est emporte Par la dure fatalite Des arrtes de la destinee; Votre vertu, vos grands talents Ne pourront obtenir du temps Le seul delai d'une journee.' La vie est un Songe. Euvres de Frederic II (edit. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... Revue des Deux Mondes 1875, vi. 335. Il y a meme des personnes de piete qui prouvent par raison qu'il faut renoncer a la raison; que ce n'est point la lumiere, mais la foi seule qui doit nous conduire, et que l'obeissance aveugle est la principale vertu des chretiens. La paresse des inferieurs et leur esprit flatteur s'accommode souvent de cette vertu pretendue, et l'orgueil de ceux qui commandent en est toujours tres content. De sorte qu'il se trouvera peut-etre des gens qui seront scandalises que je fasse ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... whose equipages were in the hands of the bailiffs, whose very jewels and wardrobe, it was said, had been seized by those inexorable Israelites. Bareacres Castle was theirs, too, with all its costly pictures, furniture, and articles of vertu—the magnificent Vandykes; the noble Reynolds pictures; the Lawrence portraits, tawdry and beautiful, and, thirty years ago, deemed as precious as works of real genius; the matchless Dancing Nymph of ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Here at home they had a whole mountain of virgin forest, carefully preserved; and in the Renaissance palace at the summit-which they carelessly referred to as a "lodge"—you would find such articles de vertu as a ten-thousand-dollar table with a set of two-thousand-dollar chairs, and quite ordinary-looking rugs at ten and twenty thousand dollars each.—All these prices you might ascertain without any difficulty at all, because there were many newspaper articles describing the house to be read in ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... Meulen, Rigaud, Vandyke, Holbein, Kneller, Lely, Dahl, M. Shee, Knapton, West, Jansen, Verelst; in fact not only in the picture-gallery, but in all parts of the Abbey are scattered treasures of art and vertu. Among the interesting curiosities are the one-pearl drop-earrings seen in the portraits of Charles I., and worn by him on the morning of his execution; also the silver-gilt chalice from which he received the consecrated wine on that fateful morning ...
— The Portland Peerage Romance • Charles J. Archard
... nerves. He suddenly remembered that in his house there was a cupboard in a wall, with two shelves devoted to storage of heirlooms; on the upper shelf lay the torah of immemorial usage in his family; the second contained cups of horn and metal, old phylacteries, amulets, and things of vertu in general, and of such addition and multiplication through the ages that he himself could not have made a list of them; in fact, now his attention was aroused, he recalled them a mass of colorless ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... great merit. The room, without being inconveniently crowded, was amply stored with furniture, every article of which bespoke a refined and luxurious taste: easy chairs of all descriptions, most inviting couches, cabinets of choice inlay, and grotesque tables covered with articles of vertu; all those charming infinite nothings, which a person of taste might some time back have easily collected during a long residence on the continent. A large lamp of Dresden china was suspended from the painted and gilded ceiling. The three tall windows opened on the gardens, and admitted a perfume ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli
... lune enlumines, Et ordonnez a ta plaisance; Pour le tres doulz pais de France Les martirs, non pas un mais tous, A jointes mains et a genoux Te requierent que tu effaces La grant doleur de France; et faces Par ta sainte digne vertu Qu'ilz aient paix; adfin que tu, Ta doulce mere et tous les sains, Et ceulx qui sont de pechiez ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... is fulfilled of precious spice, Whereof I give the recipe;— Take common dripping, stew in vice, And serve with vertu; taste and see! ...
— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman
... la sagesse elle-mme t'inspire. Avec mes volonts ton sentiment conspire. Va, ne perds point de temps. Ce que tu m'as dict, 615 Je veux de point en point qu'il soit excut. La vertu dans l'oubli ne sera plus cache. Aux portes du palais prends le Juif Mardochee: C'est lui que je prtends honorer aujourd'hui. Ordonne son triomphe, et marche devant lui. 620 Que Suse par ta voix de son nom retentisse, Et fais son aspect que tout ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... maysters blacke and tydyous Made by the craft of many a nacyon For to dystroye me / with strokes peryllous To lette my Iournaye / as I make relacyon Peryllous was the waye / and the cytuacyon Full gladde was I of the vertu of this glasse Whiche shewed me / what daungers ...
— The coforte of louers - The Comfort of Lovers • Stephen Hawes
... What sayd the god Pluto what is his name. That thus presumyth agayn vs to rebell Vertu quod attropes {that} haue he mykyl shame He is neuer confou{n}ded thus of hy{m} here I tell A sayd this pluto in dede I know hy{m} wel He hath ben euer myn vtter ennemye Original has Wherfore this mater agayn hy{m} take wyll I Ho instead of He For all the baytes {that} we for hym haue ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous
... delivre d'une vertu bourgeoise et d'une morale d'honnetes negociants. Blaetter der ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville
... left just before attaining his majority, the glory of soldier-life not proving seductive to his imagination. He had no sooner taken up his abode with his uncle than he was regarded as the most useful and ornamental piece of foreign vertu in ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf
... stonden in hire eyen mightily, As in a place un-to youre vertu digne; Wherfore, lord, if my servyse or I 430 May lyke yow, so beth to me benigne; For myn estat royal here I resigne In-to hir hond, and with ful humble chere Bicome hir man, ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... Vie Litteraire: "Pour fonder la critique, on parle de tradition et de consentement universel. Il n'y en a pas. L'opinion presque general, il est vrai, favorise certains oeuvres. Mais c'est en vertu d'un prejuge, et nullement par choix et par effet d'une preference spontane. Les oeuvres que tout le monde admire sont celles que personne n'examine." Although the classic view is, I think, nearer the truth, let us examine the arguments ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... have been written. Away with him who says that the earth is as beautiful as heaven," and Gautier's phrase, "Moi, je trouve la terre aussi belle que le ciel, et je pense que la correction de la forme est la vertu," has become the heresy more intolerable than any other to the modern cleric, and to me and to all the ardent and intellectual spirits of my generation a complete and perfect expression of doctrine. To ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... c'est a la priere que l'homme s'adresse, en dernier recours, pour combler les vides de son ame ou porter les fardeaux de sa destinee; c'est dans la priere qu'il cherche, quand tout lui manque, de l'appui pour sa faiblesse, de la consolation dans ses douleurs, de l'esperance pour sa vertu." (p. 22.) ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... tant que la foy rend les choses promises presentes, et que la foy prent veritablement le corps et le sang de nostre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, par la vertu du Sainct-Esprit; en cest esgard nous confessons la presence du corps et du sang d'iceluy en la saincte cene, en laquelle il nous presente, donne et exhibe veritablement la substance de son corps et sang, par l'operation de son Sainct-Esprit; y recevons et mangeons ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... Il va, de jour vetu, A l'avenir divin et pur, a la vertu, A la science qu'on voit luire, A la mort des fleaux, a l'oubli genereux, A l'abondance, au calme, au rire, a l'homme heureux; ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... toujours connu, je l'ai dit plus haut, reconnu un Etre supreme, j'ai toujours pense que la seul religion digne de lui, etait la vertu et la probite! ...
— A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 • W.D. Fellowes
... under my wretched lot. I was occupied the whole day in my room with servants in want of a situation, and tradesmen of every description. I decided on my future plans, and purchased various articles of vertu and splendid jewels, in order to get rid of some of my gold; but nothing seemed ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various
... this new literature of the people. George Sand had obtained her documents for this book from a little work which had greatly struck her, entitled Livre du compagnonnage, written by Agricol Perdiguier, surnamed Avignonnais-la-Vertu, who was a compagnon carpenter. Agricol Perdiguier informs us that the Compagnons were divided into three chief categories: the Gavots, the Devorants and the Drilles, or the Enfants de Salomon, the Enlants de Maitre Jacques and the Enfants du ...
— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic
... meeting Fool'd and beguil'd, by him thou, I by thee, 880 To trust thee from my side, imagin'd wise, Constant, mature, proof against all assaults, And understood not all was but a shew Rather then solid vertu, all but a Rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister from me drawn, Well if thrown out, as supernumerarie To my just number found. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... Cryst Jhesu, Thy mynd was never cast frome vertu; Thi doctryne of God thou dydest renu, Per ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton
... busily gan for the souls preye Of hem that yaf him wherwith to scoleye; Of studie took he most cure and most heede. Not oo word spak he mor than was neede, And that was seid in forme and reverence And schort and quyk, and ful of high sentence. Sownynge{53} in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... of the sayd dragon he well growen in age was receyued with a farye company of ladyes and was named vertu & with all Ioye brought to the palays of the kynge ...
— The Example of Vertu - The Example of Virtue • Stephen Hawes
... les Germains comme Montaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d'humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l'eloquente boutade d'un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d'une vielle societe." Hist. de la ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... little island, tributary to a neighboring king; its population embracing some hundreds of thousands of leaves, and flowers, and butterflies, yet only two solitary mortals; one, famous as a venerable antiquarian: a collector of objects of Mardian vertu; a cognoscenti, and dilettante in things old and marvelous; and for that reason, very choice ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... aujourd'huy dans la cnoissance des Belles Lettres, et sur tout de la Philosophic Naturelle. Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m' auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D'Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j' advoue que j' ay tir le plan ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... of Europe with a Swiss valet for his companion, and half a dozen snuff-boxes, with invisible hinges, in his pocket. But we take our ideas from sounds which folly has invented; Fashion, Boa ton, and Vertu, are the names of certain idols, to which we sacrifice the genuine pleasures of the soul: in this world of semblance, we are contented with personating happiness; to feel it is an ...
— The Man of Feeling • Henry Mackenzie
... representing oneself to be stupider than one really is—which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,—is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue. For as Galiani said, who was obliged to know it: VERTU EST ENTHOUSIASME. ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche
... dans le pays ou je suis ne, et je n'habiterai jamais le pays ou je suis ne.... Et il dira aussi qu'il est impossible d'avoir des moeurs, et de lire des Romans, et il fera un Roman; et dans son Roman le vice sera en action et la vertu en paroles, et ses personages seront forcenes d'amour et de philosophie. Et dans son Roman on apprendra l'art de suborner philosophiquement une jeune fille. Et l'Ecoliere perdra toute honte et toute pudeur, et elle ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley |
