virtue,

(R, 412) Gay held that since God wants the happiness of mankind, and since God's will gives us the criterion of virtue,

The History of Utilitarianism Driver, Julia 2009

If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue,

David Bromwich: The Double Standard and Obama's Answer 2008

In addition to exploring these psychological foundations of virtue,

Moral Character Homiak, Marcia 2007

And, as the hatred of vice is always a progress towards virtue,

Vanity Fair 2006

And you may seem to have secured by wealth virtue,

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

But whereas her mistress had, in the preface to her enquiry, spoken much in compassion for the fright which the lady had been in concerning any intended depredations on her virtue,

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

The hombre wasn't what you'd call a pillar of virtue,

Tek Money Shatner, William 1995

Thus, a difference is made between Idea (intellectual) and Ideal (sensitive); and an Ideal represents not a single thing, but a kind or type of things sub specie sensibilitatis, e.g., a virtue,

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

Nor disdainest thou to render to man, who bruises thee to try thy virtue,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

We note with regret the omission of that eminently British virtue,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various