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The Synod of New York requires that candidates be confirmed, accept the Augsburg Confession, lead a Christian life, obey the constitution and any other regulations that may hereafter be adopted. From this it seems that "Missouri" is the only body that emphasizes the interna virtus. The others place the emphasis upon conformity with certain outward forms and requirements.
The quotation if from Horace: 'Cos est magna parentium Virtus. 'The lovers there for dowry claim The father's virtue and the mother's fame. FRANCIS, Horace, Odes, iii. 24. 21. He saw it in 1774 on his way to Wales; but he must, I think, have seen it since, for it does not appear from his Journal of a Tour into Wales that he then saw Lord Scarsdale. He met him also at Dr. Taylor's in July 1775.
The little coxswain saw that it was all up with the girls' crew if she could not save them by some strategic device. "Dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat?" she whispered to herself, for The Terror remembered her Virgil as she did everything else she ever studied. As she stooped, she lifted the handkerchief at her feet, and took from it a flaming bouquet.
Cicero, Ep. These philosophers say that it is not enough to have the soul seated in a good place, of a good temper, and well disposed to virtue; it is not enough to have our resolutions and our reasoning fixed above all the power of fortune, but that we are, moreover, to seek occasions wherein to put them to the proof: they would seek pain, necessity, and contempt to contend with them and to keep the soul in breath: "Multum sibi adjicit virtus lacessita."
Dean Duport has also a short poem in the form of an epitaph on him, in which occur these lines: "Hoc sub nomine quippe continentur Virtus, ingenium, eruditioque, Fides, et pietas, amorque veri, Doctrinæ jubar, Orthodoxiæque Ingens destina, schismatis flagellum, Tortor tortilis illius Draconis, Scutum Ecclesiæ et ensis Anglicanæ Contra bella, minas, et arma Romæ."
The initials of the bride and bridegroom, and the date of the marriage, are cut upon them, together with the family coat of arms, which bears, among other heraldic devices, two laurel leaves and the motto, Virtus semper viridis. Below the grandfather's marriage stone is cut in the lintel the following: Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.
On leaving the house I went to call on Prince Augustus Sulkowski, who welcomed me as of old, but told me that I had made a mistake in returning to Warsaw as public opinion was against me. "What have I done?" "Nothing; but the Poles are always inconstant and changeable. 'Sarmatarum virtus veluti extra ipsos'. This inconstancy will cost us dear sooner or later.
Its avenues are kept in excellent order; they abound with statues and other formal decorations, which are, however, more admissible in a city promenade than in the retirement of the country. A fountain here was celebrated by Peter the Great's having fallen into it, as that monarch, like Cato, was said, "Sæpe mero caluisse virtus." "His virtue oft with wine to warm."
"When he no longer had power to preserve the liberty of Rome Cato still was free, and knew how to die for man." Again, "Cui virtus non deest Ille nunquam omnino miser." "He who retains his integrity Can never be wholly miserable." In another place, "La vraie liberté est celle de l'ame." "True liberty is that of the soul." On a beam was written,
I am not of the temper of which heroes are made.” “ ‘Virtus in infirmitate perficitur,’ ” said the priest. “What! are you to do any thing of yourself? or are you to be simply the instrument of Another? We shall have the same termination, you and myself, but you long after me.” “Ah, father, because you will burn out so much more quickly!” said Agellius.
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