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These words were accompanied by features disembarrassed and benevolent. My temper is alive to social impulses, and I accepted his invitation, not so much because I wished to eat or to sleep, but because I felt reluctance to part so soon with a being who possessed so much fortitude and virtue. He was surrounded by neatness and plenty. Austin added dexterity to submissiveness.
I admire such qualities as he has fortitude, integrity. I loved him for his courage in adverse circumstances which were yet felt by him more literally than I could feel them. Always he has had the greatest power over my heart, because I am of those weak women who reverence strong men. By a word he might have bound me to him hand and foot.
An uncommonly strong and healthy temperament, free from all nervous affection and every other irregularity, which, attacking the body in its more noble functions, so often influences the mind, tended greatly to establish this fortitude, simplicity, and decision of character.
The bold expounders of unpalatable truth ever have been martyrs, in some form or other. But Chrysostom met his fate with fortitude, and the only favor which he asked was to reside in Cyzicus, near Nicomedia.
The deep and dreadful caverns of remorse had long been explored but he was the first to visit the bottomless pit of satiety. The delineation of that Promethean fortitude which defied conscience, as he has shown it in Manfred, is his greatest achievement.
It was a calamity which might have shaken the fortitude of the very noblest soul, and it had by no means come upon him single handed. Already he had lost his wife, he had suffered from acute and chronic ill-health, he had been bereaved but three weeks previously of another little son.
They adopted the four Cardinal Virtues Wisdom, or the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Justice; Fortitude; Temperance as part of their plan of the virtuous life, the life according to Nature. Justice, as the social virtue, was placed above all the rest. But the Stoics were not strenuous in requiring more than Justice, for the benefit of others beside the agent.
"There is a a another affair going on at our house," said Ellen, after a pause. Matilda felt her heart beat with unusual violence; she could not speak, but her very soul peeped out of her eyes to say "What is it?" "It is not a parting; it it is a joining." "Oh," said Matilda, calling all her fortitude to her aid, "you are going to have a wedding, eh?"
Cynthia was going in and out of her grandfather's room, but Fleda would not ask her any more questions, to be disappointed with word-answers; she waited, but the minutes seemed very long, and very sad. The characteristic outward calm which Fleda had kept, and which belonged to a nature uncommonly moulded to patience and fortitude, had yet perhaps heightened the pressure of excited fear within.
As if to prove the strength of human fortitude, the sky became suddenly overclouded, and 'darkness was upon the face of the deep. He no longer knew his course, and he confessed, that for a moment he was afraid; yet he felt, that 'fear is but the betraying of the succors which reason offereth, and that which roused him to further exertion, would have sealed the fate of almost any other human being.
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