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"Vertu" Quotes from Famous Books

... Duchesse du Chatelet: "Que ma mmort soit d'ecid'ee," she said; "cela ne m''etonne pas; mais," pointing to her friend, "pour cet ange, en quoi vous a-t-elle offens'e; elle qui n'a jamais fait tort 'a personne; et dont la vie enti'ere n'offre qu'un tableau de vertu et de bienfaisance." Both suffered upon the same scaffold. It was this lady who was selected to be made an example of, from among many others who slighted Madame du Barri; and for this she was exiled to the distance ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... "Un Acte de Vertu," from which we have taken Dambergeac's history, contains him, the husband—a wife—and a brace of lovers; and a great deal of fun takes place in the manner in which one lover supplants ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... museum of natural history specimens, a gallery of antiquities, a lake on which to skate or row, preserves in which to shoot, a grand ball-room with an old-world polished floor, a long corridor full of pictures and articles of vertu, and ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... is fulfilled of precious spice, Whereof I give the recipe;— Take common dripping, stew in vice, And serve with vertu; ...

— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman

... l'Italie en cendre Me feront honorer Sylla? J'admirerai dans Alexandre Ce que j'abhorre en Attila? J'appellerai vertu guerriere Une vaillance meurtriere Qui dans mon sang trempe ses mains; Et je pourrai forcer ma bouche A louer un heros farouche, Ne ...

— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... delivre d'une vertu bourgeoise et d'une morale d'honnetes negociants. Blaetter der Gegenwart fuer ...

— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

Words linked to "Vertu" : taste, discernment, perceptiveness, appreciation