Sentence examples for height of virtue from inspiring English sources

And thus the perfection and height of virtue must be owing to the belief of a god" (C 192).

At one point, he justified this procedure by contending that while it is best to act from entirely disinterested motives, we sometimes might have to rely on interested considerations to induce to morally correct action those people (including ourselves) who are not yet capable of achieving the heights of virtue.

A case can be made for the perfection of various types in "Retrofonts," yet in the 574 pages of "Custom Lettering," few faces aspire to the heights of typographic virtue.

It has lofted men of mean ways to the giddy heights of fortune, and brought others of virtue low, aggravated the chaos in the affairs of men and women, and hastened a state of public disillusion.

"There you know it's a church only by virtue of the height of the ceiling and the stained glass windows, and even those are nonfigurative, just colored glass," Mr. Miller said.

Inscribed in the granite are the names and dates of the principal Marine engagements since the founding of the Corps and a quotation from Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, a tribute to those who fought on Iwo Jima: "Uncommon valor was a common virtue". The overall height of the monument, including the base, is 78 feet (24 metres).

Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.

Hers is a story of virtue victorious.

Moore G (2012) The virtue of governance, the governance of virtue.

They were visionaries of virtue.

Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology: John Greco.35.