Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...store of her letters and mementos was found in a stone tower of La Grange, one of the family estates outside Paris. Using this untapped source material and other fresh documents collected by La Fayette's descendants, Veteran Biographer Andre Maurois (Protist, Disraeli, Dickens] has described the virtuous Adrienne in tones of solemn wonder. Adrienne's sole fault was that she was almost too good to be true-and certainly was much too good to be interesting for 482 pages. But Old Master Maurois, 76, wisely lets La Fayette dominate great stretches of the book, just...
...then they're free to act. I'm grateful for that discipline, and I've never had a crisis of conscience." In a recurrent dream, she dies, now in a road accident, now of disease. "I keep thinking as I'm dying, I wanted to be better, more virtuous. I think to be good it's not sufficient just not to commit adultery. I cried when Tom Dooley died because I'll never do anything good and hard like that." But. in the words of one of her brothers. Jean Kerr is no "beads-in-the-pocket type of Catholic...
McCalla's election constituted a triumph for the virtuous, "dry," citizens of Corallis, who preach lasting welfare on John Barleycorn, but used to sneak out behind the shed every once in a while anyway. Undoubtedly, the most preached- against man in the county is Angelo Bonatura, who has the local monopoly in the illicit liquor trade, a monopoly that has taken him eight years and an artful homicide to complete...
...supposedly virtuous sheriff finds himself trapped. When the inconsistent ethics of this not really noble Roman triumph at the end, it is unexpected, to least...
...Common Sense. Franklin's character-quirky, shrewd, humorous-shows in every line of verse, in his dry homilies, and even in his most perfunctory business correspondence. The "saint of common sense" never falls from this mundane kind of sanctity. In his early middle age he is sometimes the virtuous and successful artisan-turned-entrepreneur, who could offer the sound advice of one who had walked into Philadelphia with a few coppers, three loaves and a knowledge of how to set up type as his sole capital. "Time is money," he wrote in Poor Richard in 1745, and would...