Sentence examples for sublime virtue from inspiring English sources

I consider it reasonable to conclude, that they will as readily do their duty, as deviate from it: Nor do I go on the grounds mentioned by gentlemen on the other side--that we are to place unlimited confidence in them, and expect nothing but the most exalted integrity and sublime virtue.

From their field of candidates, they have a habit of finding the writer whose sublime virtues are most necessary to the times, and essential to the place.

When Mary was published, the title page included a quotation from Rousseau: "L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus éleve et nourrit le génie" ("the exercise of the most sublime virtues raises and nourishes genius").

Christie remains a lordly paternalist who treats artists as if they were gardeners, yet who has one rousing speech in which he trumpets the virtues of the sublime.

It is not Christian virtue, so much more sublime, which is summarily comprehended in universal benevolence.

In Kant's more mature writing, he maintains the division between true virtue (which alone is sublime) and these same assisting drives (which can only be beautiful).

One of the many virtues Francis Haskell practiced in his writing, in addition to elegance and wit, was his sublime disregard of this prejudice.

Sublime moments.

Sublime work.

Fairly sublime.

Filming, sublime.