Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo reserved to the nobles of Rome and other " virtuous pagans " in Canto IV of the Inferno.

" Before the throne of the Creator there is no difference between Jews and pagans, since there are many noble and virtuous among the latter " ( Yer.

Country party relied heavily on the classical republicanism of Roman heritage ; it celebrated the ideals of duty and virtuous citizenship in a republic.

He described a nation of people who are harder-working, more virtuous – yes, more virtuous, because the market punishes immorality – and more hopeful about the future than they ’ ve ever been in their history.

The " yeoman farmer " ideal of Jeffersonian democracy was powerful in American political history, and during the 1850s, politicians believed a homestead act would help increase the number of virtuous yeomen.

The tension between eunuchs in the service of the emperor and virtuous Confucian officials is a familiar theme in Chinese history.

That day ended the career of one of the most virtuous men in the ring that has taken boxing history nationally and internationally.

In these essays, he explains that his novels combine fiction and history to place ordinary individuals ( like his novelistic protagonists Arthur Mervyn or Edgar Huntly ) into situations of historical stress ( like the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 or settler-Indian violence on the Pennsylvania frontier after the Walking Purchase ) in such a way as educate his audience about virtuous behaviors and the historical causes and conditions of individual actions.

Dtr1 saw Israel's history as a contrast between God's judgement on the sinful northern kingdom of Jeroboam I ( who set up the golden calves to be worshiped ) and virtuous Judah, where faithful king David had reigned and where now the righteous Josiah was reforming the kingdom.

After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Canto LXXVIII moves through much that is familiar from the earlier cantos in the sequence: del Cossa, the economic basis of war, Pound's writer and artist friends in London, " virtuous " rulers ( Lorenzo de Medici, the emperors Justinian, Titus and Antoninus, Mussolini ), usury and stamp scripts culminating in the Nausicaa episode from the Odyssey and a reference to the Confucian classic Annals of Spring and Autumn in which " there are no righteous wars ".

Inferior to them, but still always worthy of note, were Jacopo Nardi ( a just and faithful historian and a virtuous man, who defended the rights of Florence against the Medici before Charles V ), Benedetto Varchi, Giambattista Adriani, Bernardo Segni, and, outside Tuscany, Camillo Porzio, who related the Congiura de baroni and the history of Italy from 1547 to 1552 ; Angelo di Costanza, Pietro Bembo, Paolo Paruta, and others.

There were many greater, more notable, and more virtuous women in Jewish history that are not mentioned.

* Elysium ( or the Elysian Fields ), in Greek mythology, the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous

The variegate Lithuanian mythology of this time ( legend about emigration of Palemon from Rome to Lithuania, legend about the founding of the capital of Lithuania Vilnius by Duke Gediminas, and other pieces ) had been presented in a spirit of high lucid and virtuous patriotism.

In Norse mythology, Brimir is another name for the giant Ymir and also the name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the endtime conflict of Ragnarok.

* Virginal Maiden – young, beautiful, pure, innocent, kind, virtuous.

" When Taji kills the old priest holding Yillah captive, he states " remorse smote me hard ; and like lightning I asked myself whether the death deed I had done was sprung of virtuous motive, the rescuing of a captive from thrall, or whether beneath the pretense I had engaged in this fatal affray for some other selfish purpose, the companionship of a beautiful maid.

Ethnocentrism may take obvious forms, in which one consciously believes that one's people's arts are the most beautiful, values the most virtuous, and beliefs the most truthful.

* Hermione – The virtuous and beautiful Queen of Sicily.

According to the Nippon Kyudo Federation the supreme goal of kyudo is the state of shin-zen-bi, roughly " truth-goodness-beauty ", which can be approximated as: when archers shoot correctly ( i. e. truthfully ) with virtuous spirit and attitude toward all persons and all things which relate to kyudo ( i. e. with goodness ), beautiful shooting is realized naturally.

According to the Mahabharat and the Puranas, Draupadi was regarded as the most beautiful and virtuous of all women at the time.

It is said that if there was any one woman just as beautiful and virtuous as she was, it was Rukmini.

* Hypatia or the History of a most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned and in every way accomplished lady, who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria to gratify the pride, emulation and cruelty of the archbishop commonly but undeservedly titled St Cyril ( 1720 )

She is a beautiful, virtuous young relation of the Prioress who represents St. Clare in the Procession.

She was a maiden beautiful in her person, lovely to look at, virtuous and well-behaved, with good sense and a pleasant address.

Scorned by the society of St. Petersburg for his trusting nature and naivety, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection.

The phrase is adjectival, composed of two adjectives, (" beautiful ") and (" good " or " virtuous "), the second of which is combined by crasis with καί " and " to form.

A virtuous person feels pleasure at the most beautiful or noble ( kalos ) actions.

Tavia is an atypical Burroughs heroine ; depicted as self-reliant and competent with weapons, witty and intelligent, she compares favorably for both reader and Hadron with beautiful but shallow Sanoma Tora, who ultimately shows herself unworthy of the virtuous hero.

In A New Way to Pay Old Debts, in contrast, Lord Lovell would rather see his family line go extinct than marry Overreach's daughter Margaret, even though she's young, beautiful, and virtuous.

Dea is blind but beautiful and utterly virtuous.

After presenting some further definitions and instances about the beautiful and the sublime, in this section, Kant explains that one should be truly virtuous to feel the finer feelings.

Since not all people are truly virtuous, they are not alike in feeling beautiful and sublime.

The novel revolves around a love " rectangle " between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.

Morland's wife was a beautiful and virtuous woman, and throughout the whole of her husband's profligate career was deeply attached to him.

Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy.

One ought not to seek it anywhere: not in love, nor beauty, nor happiness, nor virtue ; but one should love it, in order to be virtuous, beautiful and happy, insofar as that is possible for man.

He marries a friend from his childhood, the beautiful and virtuous Carmen ( Lee ), but after he achieves fame and fortune he finds himself drawn to Doña Sol ( Naldi ), a wealthy, seductive widow.

Whatever energy Abner had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae Scragg, his sexy, well-endowed ( but virtuous ) girlfriend — until Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to marry.

In these latter cases the faiths do not promote deference, as happens in monotheisms ; rather each suggests a path of action that will bring the practitioner into conformance with the divine law: ahimsa — ' no harm ' — for Buddhist and Hindu faiths ; de or te — ' virtuous action ' — in daoism ; and any of numerous practices of peace and love in new age thinking.

Le Morvan advocates a third approach — he dubs it the " Health Approach "-- that explores when skepticism is healthy and when it is not, or when it is virtuous and when it is vicious.

" Finally, to call to mind the enormous influence that ' German philosophy ' — I hope you understand its right to quotation marks — has exercised throughout the whole of Europe, there is no doubt that a certain virtus dormativa to make sleepy had a share in it: it was a delight to the noble idlers, the virtuous, the mystics, artists, three – quarter Christians, and political obscurantists of all nations, to find, thanks to German philosophy, an antidote to the still predominant sensualism which overflowed from the last century into this, in short —' sensus assoupire ' put the senses to sleep.

Even the story of each aviator suggests roots in old Russian storytelling and narratives — virtuous heroes striving attempting to reach an end goal, encountering and conquering any obstacles in their path.

By simplifying reality and grossly exaggerating the truth, the novels captured the public's attention with sensational tales of violence and heroism, and fixed in the public's mind stereotypical images of heroes and villains — courageous cowboys and savage Indians, virtuous lawmen and ruthless outlaws, brave settlers and predatory cattlemen.

Abner's main goal in life was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, the virtuous, voluptuous, barefoot Dogpatch damsel and scion of the Yokums ' blood feud enemies — the Scraggs, her bloodthirsty, semi-evolved kinfolk.

Even women of the upper classes were expected to be able to spin and weave in virtuous emulation of their rustic ancestors — a practice ostentatiously observed by Livia.

The first is based on the inherent goodness of acting for and being concerned for others (" the excellent person labours for his friends and for his native country, and will die for them if he must " ); thus, being a wholly virtuous and fulfilled person necessarily involves having others for whom one is concerned — without them, one's life is incomplete:

Eventually — certainly by the 18th century — Minerva had come to represent all of those qualities that might be wished for in a rational, virtuous, prudent, wise, and " scientific " man: just the sort of progressive individual who might found a new nation ( or college ) based on sound republican principles and liberal Christian ( Protestant ) morals.

Sandeman wrote: In fine, the whole New Testament speaks aloud, that as to the matter of acceptance with God, there is no difference betwixt one man and another ; — no difference betwixt the best accomplished gentleman, and the most infamous scoundrel ; — no difference betwixt the most virtuous lady and the vilest prostitute ...

Kouji Kabuto was not your usual hero of the time — he was a crass, arrogant, impulsive and hot-headed ne ’ er-do-well — who was the polar opposite of the virtuous Japanese males in the media.

If the player's Compassion stat is high enough — represented by having done enough good deeds throughout the game — the Ur-grue is shown to be unable to possess the player, his evil apparently unable to coexist in the same body with an extremely pure or virtuous spirit, and the Ur-grue's old man form fades away.

Both of these please the virtuous people — but differently.

Checkmate itself would have been such a novel: sensational, thrilling — a variation of the old " damsel in distress " motif —, romantic, sexy, with characters larger than life, with lots of complications during the plot but a clear-cut ending where good and virtuous behavior is rewarded and evil is punished.