Sentence examples for private virtue from inspiring English sources

To push for private virtue, he will first have to make a convincing public argument.

Of exalted public and private virtue in his life and career, he filled up the full measure of our conception of a man".

Everyone from preachers to politicians damned novels as corrupting of both public and private virtue and, above all, of women's virtue.

Its influence can be seen in the 1612 edition of Francis Bacon's Essays, which contain counsels of public morality and private virtue recognizably derived from Plutarch.

But while loving one's own family is always a private virtue, favoring one's kin in the apportionment of power is surely a public vice.

This case for the persistent advantages of private virtue does not disprove more purely economic analyses of what's gone wrong in American life, but it should at the very least complicate them, and suggest a different starting place for discussions of the common good than the ground that most liberals prefer to occupy.

"It is a theme of private virtues becoming public virtues.

The emphasis on private virtues, on community loyalties, on apologetic decency is already receding.

But private virtues such as these are as likely to wither as to flourish when public bodies take charge of them.

Inspired by a range of sources, particularly Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful History of the Kings of Britain, and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, the six published allegories celebrate the private virtues: holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice and courtesy.

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