Book, Chapter

 1      1, Int  |             the other parts of your virtue and fortune, I have been
 2      1, Int  |        contention of your Majesty’s virtue with your fortune; a virtuous
 3      1, I    |            meriting and substantial virtue. And as for that censure
 4      1, II   |          justice, honour, and moral virtue, which if they be well and
 5      1, IV   |             retaineth the state and virtue, by taking advantage upon
 6      1, VI   |           see a double emanation of virtue from God; the one referring
 7      1, VI   |           and temporal felicity. By virtue of which grant or donative
 8      1, VII  |        other side how much Trajan’s virtue and government was admired
 9      1, VII  |             speech (which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called Cymini
10      1, VII  |           towards his wife. And the virtue of this prince, continued
11      1, VII  |          upon civil merit and moral virtue, and the arts or temperature
12      1, VII  |        towards martial and military virtue and prowess, as may be notably
13      1, VII  |             concurrence of military virtue and learning (for what example
14      1, VII  |       things left, our arms and our virtue; and if we yield up our
15      1, VII  |            shall we make use of our virtue?” Whereto Falinus, smiling
16      1, VII  |            abused if you think your virtue can withstand the king’s
17      1, VIII |          from imperial and military virtue to moral and private virtue;
18      1, VIII |         virtue to moral and private virtue; first, it is an assured
19      1, VIII |             greatest impediments of virtue and imperfections of manners.
20      1, VIII |       perturbations.~(3) From moral virtue let us pass on to matter
21      2, Int  |        ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion
22      2, II   |           for arms, learning, moral virtue, policy, and laws; the state
23      2, III  |    deficient; only I would that the virtue and sincerity of it were
24      2, IV   |          agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy
25      2, IV   |             guile, as of the man in virtue and justice. Nevertheless,
26      2, V    |          and how far it multiplieth virtue? Doth any give the reason
27      2, VII  |          because it is the duty and virtue of all knowledge to abridge
28      2, X    |             lawyer is judged by the virtue of his pleading, and not
29      2, X    |           is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we see [the]
30      2, X    |             flourish in times while virtue is in growth, are military;
31      2, X    |             are military; and while virtue is in state, are liberal;
32      2, X    |              are liberal; and while virtue is in declination, are voluptuary:
33      2, XX   |           and portraitures of good, virtue, duty, felicity; propounding
34      2, XX   |            heroical descriptions of virtue, duty, and felicity. Wherefore
35      2, XX   |             describing the forms of virtue and duty, with their situations
36      2, XX   |             the distinction between virtue with reluctation and virtue
37      2, XX   |         virtue with reluctation and virtue secured, in their encounters
38      2, XX   |       profit, in their balancing of virtue with virtue, and the like;
39      2, XX   |            balancing of virtue with virtue, and the like; so as this
40      2, XX   |             and received notions of virtue and vice, pleasure and pain,
41      2, XX   |              who placed felicity in virtue simply or attended, the
42      2, XX   |            it in pleasure, and made virtue (as it is used in some comedies
43      2, XXI  |           epicures themselves, that virtue beareth a great part in
44      2, XXI  |             so, certain it is, that virtue hath more use in clearing
45      2, XXI  |      towards others, as the term of virtue is applied to a mind well
46      2, XXI  |        neither can a man understand virtue without some relation to
47      2, XXI  |           write of the proper duty, virtue, challenge, and right of
48      2, XXI  |            that is, when either the virtue is absent, or the occasion
49      2, XXI  |         excellent table of Caesar’s virtue, and made to his face; besides
50      2, XXI  |      fortifications for honesty and virtue that can be planted. For,
51      2, XXI  |             evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
52      2, XXII |            they have persuaded unto virtue most effectually, by representing
53      2, XXII |            popular opinions against virtue in their parasites’ coats
54      2, XXII |   satirically and in indignation on virtue’s behalf; but books of policy
55      2, XXII |           reducing of the mind unto virtue and good estate; which is,
56      2, XXII |        shall mould himself into all virtue at once. And this indeed
57      2, XXII |           one time. So in obtaining virtue by habit, while a man practiseth
58      2, XXII |            to good ends, look, what virtue soever the pursuit and passage
59      2, XXIII|             seldom aspire to higher virtue; whereas those that have
60      2, XXIII|         despised, as an inferior to virtue and an enemy to meditation;
61      2, XXIII|          set forth, that esteem not virtue or merit longer than they
62      2, XXIII|           have little discerning of virtue, but of fortune.~Qui celat
63      2, XXIII|           and not to their skill or virtue. For so Sylla surnamed himself
64      2, XXIII|          his uncle than inferior in virtue), how when he died he desired
65      2, XXIII|             as heavy impositions as virtue; and it is as hard and severe
66      2, XXIII| nevertheless fortune as an organ of virtue and merit deserveth the
67      2, XXIII|      flourishes and enhancements of virtue, as they are not perchance
68      2, XXIII|             at least necessary that virtue be not disvalued and embased
69      2, XXIII|           soon the fruit of a man’s virtue, in commendation, applause,
70      2, XXIII|             see that he pretend the virtue that shadoweth it; as if
71      2, XXIII|            a man seek not to attain virtue itself, but the appearance
72      2, XXIII|      thereof; because the credit of virtue is a help, but the use of
73      2, XXIII|         greater curse; and that all virtue is most rewarded and all
74      2, XXIII|             seldom aspire to higher virtue; whereas those that have
75      2, XXIII|         despised, as an inferior to virtue and an enemy to meditation;
76      2, XXIII|          set forth, that esteem not virtue or merit longer than they
77      2, XXIII|           have little discerning of virtue, but of fortune.~Qui celat
78      2, XXIII|           and not to their skill or virtue. For so Sylla surnamed himself
79      2, XXIII|          his uncle than inferior in virtue), how when he died he desired
80      2, XXIII|             as heavy impositions as virtue; and it is as hard and severe
81      2, XXIII| nevertheless fortune as an organ of virtue and merit deserveth the
82      2, XXIII|      flourishes and enhancements of virtue, as they are not perchance
83      2, XXIII|             at least necessary that virtue be not disvalued and embased
84      2, XXIII|           soon the fruit of a man’s virtue, in commendation, applause,
85      2, XXIII|             see that he pretend the virtue that shadoweth it; as if
86      2, XXIII|            a man seek not to attain virtue itself, but the appearance
87      2, XXIII|      thereof; because the credit of virtue is a help, but the use of
88      2, XXIII|         greater curse; and that all virtue is most rewarded and all
89      2, XXV  |             notions and conceits of virtue and vice, justice and wrong,