concupiscences

First, properly; and thus it is a special virtue having a special matter, namely the concupiscences relating to venereal pleasures.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

_I answer that, _ As stated above (Q. 141, A. 4; Q. 157, A. 3), temperance brings moderation into those things wherein it is most difficult to be moderate, namely the concupiscences of pleasures of touch.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

But those who consider worldly pomp a mere offscouring and all under the sun mere nothingness if only they may win Christ, those who are dead with Christ, have risen with Him and have crucified the flesh with its vices and concupiscences - they will echo the words: "Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ?"

The Death of St Jerome 2009

This concupiscible appetite, howsoever it may seem to carry with it a show of pleasure and delight, and our concupiscences most part affect us with content and a pleasing object, yet if they be in extremes, they rack and wring us on the other side.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[1905] He hath scorned all money, bribes, gifts, upright otherwise and sincere, hath inserted himself to no fond imagination, and sustained all those tyrannical concupiscences of the body, hath lost all his honour, captivated by vainglory.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Temperance is about the natural concupiscences of food, drink, and sexual matters, which are indeed ordained to the natural common good, just as other matters of lawc are ordained to the moral common good.

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

He says that our eyes have not seen or our concupiscences coveted anything so concupiscible as the widow Wadman.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

He says that our eyes have not seen or our concupiscences coveted anything so concupiscible as the widow Wadman.

Three Peculiar Pages 2005

Mr. Carter had explained that in these days good men thought but little of crusts and cups, and that as regarded himself, nature had so made him that he had but few concupiscences of that sort.

Castle Richmond 2004

Its grave danger to the nation lies in its narrow views, its unnaturally sustained and spitefully jealous concupiscences, its petty tyrannies, its false social pretences, its endless grudges and squabbles, its sacrifice of the boy's future by setting him to earn money to help the family when he should be in training for his adult life

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James