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...Introduction: This dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ?whether virtue can be taught.? Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ?Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.? Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad mem...

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... THIS D IALOGUE BEGINS abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what... ...he vir tue of a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily describ... ... described.’ Socrates reminds Meno that this is only an enu meration of the virtues and not a definition of the notion which is common to them all. I... ... of the notion which is common to them all. In a second attempt Meno defines virtue to be ‘the power of command.’ But to this, again, excep tions are... ...of command.’ But to this, again, excep tions are taken. For there must be a virtue of those who obey , as well as of those who command; and the power... ...ustly or not unjustly exercised. Meno is very ready to admit that justice is virtue: ‘W ould you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues, ... ...nswers in the spirit of a Greek gentleman, and in the words of a poet, ‘that virtue is to delight in things honourable, and to have the power of getti... ...V irtue is the power of getting good with justice.’ But justice is a part of virtue, and therefore virtue is the getting of good with a part of virtue... ... shock upon him. When he talks with other persons he has plenty to say about virtue; in the presence of Socrates, his thoughts desert him. Socrates re...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard. After the death of Uther Pendragon reigned Arthur his son, the which had great war in his days for to get all England into his hand. For there were many kings within the realm of England...

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...PTER I Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard. A fter the death of Uther Pendragon ... ...and without trea- son. And if I may find such a knight that hath all these virtues, he may draw out this sword out of the sheath, for I have been at K...

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...e of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middleaged; in the Lysis he is...

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... of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears ag... ...hey could not say that friend ship was only a quality , or a relation, or a virtue, or “Lysis, or Friendship” Plato 8 a kind of virtue; and they h... ...o reached the point of regarding it, like justice, as a form or attribute of virtue. They had another perplexity: 8) How could one of the noblest feel... ...ainment of Heracles, who was a connexion of the family, setting forth how in virtue of this relationship he was hospitably received by an ancestor of ...

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...ubmit. Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, Were there all harmony , all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind, That never passion di... ...these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite; And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit. Wits,... ...e; Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take some virtue’s name. In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix’d; ’tis f... ...our best principle: ’ Tis thus the mercury of man is fix’d, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix’d; The dross cements what else were too refin’... ... to the planter’s care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot, Wild nature’s vigor working at the root... ... which th’ ignoble mind’s a slave, Is emulation in the learn’d or brave; Nor virtue, male or female, can we name, But what will grow on pride, or grow... ...n pride, or grow on shame. Thus nature gives us (let it check our pride) The virtue nearest to our vice ally’d: Reason the byas turns to good from ill... ..., light and shade, And oft so mix, the diff’rence is too nice Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, Th... ...or begins the vice. Fools! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite ...

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...the former! His last words were, “There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and, indeed, friendship itself is only a part of vir... ...y, and steeped in the venom, of a wasp. And yet, withal, he possessed many virtues, which endeared him to a multitude of friends. He was a kind son. H... ... a perfect image of that happy time; which, by giving us an esteem for the virtues of a former age, might recommend them to the present. And since the... ...he ladies stare? Honour forbid! at whose unrivall’d shrine Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already h... ... gains: That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face! Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm’d th... ...urce of art! Who charm the sense, or mend the heart; Who lead fair Virtue’s train along, Moral truth, and mystic song! To what new cli... ...arcus with blushes owns he loves, And Brutus tenderly reproves. Why, Virtue, dost thou blame desire, Which Nature has impress’d Why, N... ...kindred dregs below; So flew the soul to its congenial place, Nor left one virtue to redeem her race. But thou, false guardian of a charge too good, T... ...To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; T o make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o’er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the tr...

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...kes, for chaff and straws. Hence we conclude, no women’s hearts Are won by virtue, wit, and parts; Nor are the men of sense to blame For breasts incap... ...they complain, This infant shall restore my reign. I’ll search where every virtue dwells, From Courts inclusive down to cells. What preachers talk, or... ...hort Pieces – Swift 47 Where never blush was called in aid, The spurious virtue in a maid, A virtue but at second hand; They blush because they unde... ...hand: But Pallas here was at a stand; She know in our degenerate days Bare virtue could not live on praise, That meat must be with money bought: She t... ...Alone distinguished man from brute: That present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for o... ...spite, Against V anessa’s power unite; To copy her few nymphs aspired; Her virtues fewer swains admired; So stars, beyond a certain height, Give morta... ...ht. Yet some of either sex, endowed With gifts superior to the crowd, With virtue, knowledge, taste, and wit, She condescended to admit; With pleasing... ...wo maxims she could still produce, And sad experience taught her use; That virtue, pleased by being shown, Knows nothing which it dare not own; Can ma... ...is doctrines when she fist imbibed; What he had planted now was grown, His virtues she might call her own; As he approves, as he dislikes, Love or con...

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...of my doing, let me say ’Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the f... ...ness’ hand Henry VIII, Act II, scene ii 32 I tender my commission; by whose virtue, The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord Cardinal of York, are ... ...y, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note’s Ta’en of your many virtues, the king’s majesty Commends his good opinion of you, and Does pu... ...ore shame for ye: holy men I thought ye, Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues; But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye: Mend ‘em, for sha... ... worse. QUEEN KATHARINE : Have I lived thus long—let me speak myself, Since virtue finds no friends—a wife, a true one? A woman, I dare say without v... ... and servants. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS : Madam, you’ll find it so. You wrong your virtues With these weak women’s fears: a noble spirit, As yours was put i... ... O my lord, Press not a falling man too far! ’tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. ... ...: Noble madam, Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak h... ...excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap’d happiness upon him; For then, and not till t...

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...wont to cultivate a variety of herbs supposed to be endowed with medicinal virtue. Some of them had been long known in the pharmacopoia of the Old Wor... ...e had never ventured to make a medical use, nor, indeed, did he know their virtue, although from year to year he had tended and fertilized, weeded and... ..., our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the ... ...yet a school-boy, had lis- tened to the old man’s legend of the miraculous virtues of these plants; and it took so firm a hold of his mind, that the r... ...hers, now seemed to shine with auspicious lustre, as if its old Scriptural virtues were renewed. If any faith was to be put in human testimony, many m... ...ts, perhaps—used 32 The Dolliver Romance to combine what they thought the virtues of many plants, thinking that something would result in the whole, ... ...cy be created. Whereas, it has been the teaching of my experience that one virtue counteracts another, and is the enemy of it. I never believed the fo... ...d a lump into it, or put in some ingredient, in which was all the hid- den virtue,—or, at least, it drew out all the hidden virtue of the mean and com... ...d let fall, and forced it into the bottle to prevent any farther escape of virtue. He then fear- fully watched the result of the madman’s potation. Th...

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...d carries virtu- ous qualities, there commendations go with pity; they are virtues and traitors too; in her they are the better for their simpleness; ... ..., Bertram, and succeed thy father In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness Share with thy birthrig... ...oward; Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue s steely bones Look bleak i the cold wind: withal, full oft we see... ...the safety; but the composition that your valor and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. PAROLLES: I am so full o... ..., save what thou dislikest, A poor physician s daughter, thou dislikest Of virtue for the name: but do not so: From lowest place when virtuous things... ... place is dignified by the doer s deed: Where great additions swell s, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honor. Good alone Is good without a name. V... ... said? If thou canst like this creature as a maid, I can create the rest: virtue and she Is her own dower; honor and wealth from me. BERTRAM: I cann... ...with lords and honorable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth another word, else I ld call y... ...nt. First Lord: It were fit you knew him; lest, repos- ing too far in his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some great and trusty business in a ...

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...eds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwill... ...ture man might have to exercise his own leading capacity. How great a virtue is temperance, how much of moment through the whole life of man! ... ...true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her ... ...er; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,... ... utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental white- ness. W... ... survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can... ...rs, were to be under pittance and prescrip- tion and compulsion, what were virtue but a name, what praise could be then due to well doing, what gram... ...round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagi... ...l sin by this means; look how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue: for the matter of them both is the same; remove that, and ye remo...

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...sure, the match Were rich and honorable; besides, the gentleman Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities Beseeming such a wife as your fair daug... ...refore is she better than a jade. Item: She can milk; look you, a sweet virtue in a maid with clean hands. [Enter SPEED.] SPEE... ...t him a stock? SPEED: Item: She can wash and scour. LAUNCE: A special virtue: for then she need not be washed and scoured. SPEED: Item: She c... ..., when she can spin for her living. SPEED: Item: She hath many nameless virtues. LAUNCE: That s as much as to say, bastard virtues; that, indeed,... ...names. SPEED: Here follow her vices. LAUNCE: Close at the heels of her virtues. SPEED: Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect of her ... ...that set this down among her vices! To be slow in words is a woman s only virtue: I pray thee, out with t, and place it for her chief virtue. SPEED:... ...e the rest, we parley to you: Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity And live, as we do, in this wilderness? Third Outlaw: ...

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...t of Writing stylistic pattern proceed hand in hand, sometimes by an obvi- ous and triumphant effort, sometimes with a great air of ease and nature. T... ..., one in prose, one in verse, I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long re-ech- oed in my ear. ‘I cannot praise a f... ...nbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her ad- versary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal gar- land is to be run for, not without dus... ... loud and powerful fan, W .P . F . (st) (ow) L. Puffing at all, winnows the light away; W . P . F . L. And what hath mass and matter by itself W . F .... ...ill clearly conscious of a dozen others more important in themselves and more cen- tral to the matter in hand. But while those who treat litera- ture ... ...t be unworthy, stamps himself as a mere incubus of dumb and greedy bowels on the shoulders of labouring humanity. On that subject alone even to force ... ...genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the 31 The Art of Writ... ...e perform for us some of the work of fiction, reminding 32 Robert Louis Stevenson us, that is, of the truly mingled tissue of man’s nature, and how h... ...re of his task, to make us feel the difference of epochs instead of the essential identity of man, and even in the originals only to those who can rec...

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... entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministe... ... are subject, if their natures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom. Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation... ...table; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still im prove in some virtues without any mixture of vice. Do these miserable animals presume ... ...ent my most humble respects to the emperor their master, the renown of whose virtues had so justly filled the whole world with admira tion, and whose... ...em perance, and the like, to be in every man’s power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any m... ...pt where a course of study is re quired. But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind... ...s to be great, but that still there was room for mercy, the most commendable virtue in a prince, and for which his majesty was so justly celebrated. H... ...f arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so con... ...out any salary or pen sion? because this appeared such an exalted strain of virtue and public spirit, that his majesty seemed to doubt it might possi...

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... ’tis no great miracle in men of his profession. But the acknowledgment of virtue is not less valid in the mouth of him who hates it, forasmuch as tru... ... jected to the reverence of the laws, which, to second and authorise, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigour; many vicious actions ar... ...r end by a vicious action, to foist, in all security, into it some show of virtue and justice, as by way of compensation and conscientious correction;... ...promised something that is unlawful and wicked in itself; for the right of virtue ought to take place of the right of any obligation of ours. I have f... ...blood. If it be grandeur of courage, and the effect of a rare and singular virtue, to contemn friendship, private obligations, a man’s word and relati... ...ous, have made such, if authorised by law and custom. There is likewise no virtue which does not rejoice a well- descended nature: there is a kind of,... ...rivate family, says: “of which a the master is the same within, by his own virtue and temper, that he is abroad, for fear of the laws and report of me... ...w and private actions; to which may be added, that order is a dull, sombre virtue. To enter a breach, con- duct an embassy, govern a people, are actio... ...gne difficulty than the others do; and private men, says Aristotle,’ serve virtue more painfully and highly than those in author- ity do: we prepare o...

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...her and my two sisters found amusement in making me suffer. The compact in virtue of which children hide each other’s peccadilloes, and which early te... ...is valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues. Love, infinite love, without other sustenance than the vi- sion, d... ...el. Under the Restoration he entailed an estate with the title of count in virtue of letters-patent from Louis XVIII. His children reaped the fruits o... ... of Mystery) was the soul. The disciples of this philosopher practised the virtues taught them by the lofty doctrines of mystical illumination. These ... ...mes of emergency, tear through politics like bomb-shells, and may also, by virtue of honesty and courage, make a man condemned to live buried on his p... ... its persistence; the living, inward piety which was the bond of her other virtues filled the air about her with spiritual incense. Besides, I was you... ...ll my thoughts; do not destroy my confidence. Why will you not combine the virtue of the priest with the charm of a free man.” “Y ou make me drink the... ...form of true courtesy. Never fear to be the dupe and victim of this social virtue; you will some day gather the fruit of seeds scattered ap- parently ... ...an is as far from the base cow- ardice of Philinte as he is from the harsh virtue of Alceste. The genius of the poet is displayed in the mind of this ...

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... the window. There, he conceived the utmost horror of himself. Feeling his virtue weak, fearing still to succumb to the spell that was upon him he spr... ...but have watched untempted beside millions of gold. At the moment when his virtue rose proudly and vigorously from the struggle, he knelt down, with a... ...even finish his sentence. At that warm defence, so full of youth and manly virtue, I pressed his hand. “When he woke,” continued Prosper, “he must hav... ..., a lawyer, and a notary,—in short, all social opinions, and all practical virtues. We began by dining well, talking well, and making some noise; then... ... had subscribed for the children and tomb of General Foy exclaimed:— “Like Virtue’s self, a crime has its degrees.” “Rash tongue!” said the former min... ...the nineteenth century! Shall I build a hospital, or institute a prize for virtue? A prize for virtue would be given to scoun- drels; and as for hospi...

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... little sourer, as from men instead of monkeys. I think we are human only in virtue of open windows. Without fresh air, you only require a bad heart, ... ...ut if this be so, what remarkable pirates have we here! and what must be the virtues, the industry, the education, and the intelligence of their super... ...nderstand all business as a competition in fraud, and honesty itself to be a virtue which regards the carrying out but not the creation of agreements.... ...e despised Chinese have taught the youth of California, none indeed of their virtues, but the debasing use of opium. And chief among these influences ... ...he association. This singular society is purely French, a creature of French virtues, and possibly of French defects. It cannot be imitated by the Eng... ...d, that finest trait of mankind; scorn of men’s opinions, another element of virtue; and at the back of all, a conscience just like yours and mine, wh... ...y to themselves are Shakespeares, Napoleons, or Beethovens; who have not one virtue to rub against another in the field of active life, and yet perhap... ...such a course; and people nowhere demand the picturesque so much as in their virtues. 127 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMA... ...ecause they have less genius, they stand ex- cused from the display of equal virtues? But upon one point there should be no dubiety: if a man be not f...

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...and honest in the private way; and there is such a thing, sir, as a public virtue; but when a man has neither, the Lord lighten him! Even this Gondrem... ...art on you!’ ‘I beg your pardon,’ Otto cut in. ‘You were addressing me. In virtue of what circumstance am I to render you an account of this young lad... ... philosophical, and certainly not virtuous,’ Otto resumed. ‘Not of a Roman virtue,’ chuckled the recluse. Otto drew his chair nearer to the table, lea... ...I inclined to like about you; inclined, I believe, to admire. The names of virtues exercise a charm on most of us; we must lay claim to all of them, h... ...tter than yourself. You see, I have changed my mind, and have the uncommon virtue to avow the change. I tear up this stuff before you, here in your ow... ... still recall with gratitude, for I have found a sovereign with some manly virtues; and for once – old courtier and old radical as I am – it is from t... ...the Baron stoutly, ‘if I scoured them well. I would put a good name upon a virtue; you will not overdo it: they are not so enchanting in themselves.’ ... ... let me pray my belle dame sans merci,’ he re- turned, ‘to affect the only virtue that she lacks. Be pitiful to the poor young man; affect an interest... ...revolt; he may be happy in sleep; wine, change, and travel make him happy; virtue, they say, will do the like – I have not tried; and they say also th...

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... to long peace. He is gone happy, and has left me rich: Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound To your free heart, I do return those talents, Doubled ... ...ark me for his friend; yet, I protest, For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue And honorable carriage, Had his necessity made use of me, I would ... ...e! First Senator : Now, captain? ALCIBIADES: I am an humble suitor to your virtues; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it c... ...hout heed, do plunge into ‘t. He is a man, setting his fate aside, Of comely virtues: Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice— An honor in him which b... ...erty Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth, That ‘gainst the stream of virtue they may strive, And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains, Sow... ...ery purpose! O thou touch of hearts! Think, thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue Set them into confounding odds, that beasts May have the world in ...

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...eddened the cheeks and sul- lied the lips of trousered maidens, and Madame Virtue with three lovers; for certain things must be done to suit the vices... ...ther virtuous and well-behaved ones. Now during one night—dangerous to his virtue—the devil whispered into his ear that he should live more luxuri- ou... ... to accommodate her little tempers, she ruled everyone with a high hand in virtue of her pretty babble and enchanting ways, which enthralled the most ... ..., “That they, the good ladies, might keep to their own proper way and holy virtues, and Madame Imperia to the sweet naughtiness of the goddess Venus”—... ...and frisked unmistakably. The sen- eschal thought to disarm the rebellious virtue of his wife by making her scour the country; but his fraud turned ou... ...the vigorous nature of his wife, and humiliating himself before his wife’s virtue he resolved to let things take their course, 34 Balzac relying a li... ...more love than strength, and I have taken advantage of your clem- ency and virtue. The great sorrow of my life is to feel all my capability in my hear... ... makes me itch dreadfully. If this folly bites and pricks me, and slays my virtue, will God, who has placed this great love in my body, condemn me to ... ...the imagina- tions of one’s brain by fasting, excessive labours, and other virtues; and instead of frisking and fretting like a child let loose from s...