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Virtue

Here are entered works on the concept of virtue. Works discussing collectively the various individual virtues are entered under Virtues.

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• Conduct of life
• Ethics
• Human acts

• Virtue -- Early works to 1800
• Virtue -- Fiction
• Vice
• Virtue in literature
• Virtues

• For That I Came: Virtues and Ideals of Jesuit Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1997), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• Fundamental Moral Attitudes, by Dietrich Von Hildebrand, trans. by Alice Von Hildebrand (HTML at EWTN)
• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)
• Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees, by Francis Hutcheson (HTML at McMaster)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Characters of Virtues and Vices, by Joseph Hall (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Meno, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Meno, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

• A Dialogue Between an East-Indian Brackmanny or Heathen-Philosopher, and a French Gentleman Concerning the Present Affairs of Europe (London: A. Sowle, 1683), by Thomas Tryon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Letter Concerning Toleration (Huddersfield: Printed for the editor by J. Brook, 1796), by John Locke, trans. by William Popple (multiple formats at Google)
• Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke (Gutenberg text)

• The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, Discussed, in a Conference Betweene Truth and Peace (1644), by Roger Williams, contrib. by John Cotton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody, by Mr Cottons Endevour to Wash it White in the Blood of the Lambe (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1652), by Roger Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe (London: Printed by M. Symmons for H. Allen, 1647), by John Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed; and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered (originally published 1644; London: J. Haddon, 1848), by Roger Williams, ed. by Edward Bean Underhill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (Publications of the Narragansett Club, first series, v3; 1867), by Roger Williams, ed. by Samuel L. Caldwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers (2 volumes; London: L. Hinde, 1753), by Joseph Besse
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Earlham
  • Volume II: HTML and page images at Earlham
• The Shortest Way With the Dissenters, by Daniel Defoe (HTML at Bartleby)
• A Continuation of the Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, Who Were Ejected and Silenced After the Restoration in 1660, By or Before the Act for Uniformity (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. Ford et al., 1727), by Edmund Calamy
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Moderation Truly Stated: or, A Review of a Late Pamphlet Entitul'd Moderation a Vertue; With a Prefatory Discourse to Dr. D'Aveanant Concerning His Late Essays on Peace and War (London: Printed by J. L. for R. Wilkin, 1704), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Seasonable Counsel: or, Advice to Sufferers, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)

• A Dialogue Between an East-Indian Brackmanny or Heathen-Philosopher, and a French Gentleman Concerning the Present Affairs of Europe (London: A. Sowle, 1683), by Thomas Tryon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe (London: Printed by M. Symmons for H. Allen, 1647), by John Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Opus Sadicum: A Philosophical Romance, for the First Time Translated from the Original French (translated version of Justine, with an early title page; Paris: I. Liseux, 1889), by marquis de Sade, trans. by Isidore Liseux
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg text)

• Pseudo-Cyprianus De XII Abusivis Saeculi; Fragmente der Homilien des Cyrill von Alexandrien zum Lukasevangelium (volume from the series Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Altchristlichen Literatur; texts in Latin and Greek, notes and commentaries in German; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1909), by Pseudo-Cyprian and Saint Cyril, ed. by Siegmund Hellmann and Joseph Sickenberger
  • page images in Germany
  • bound with other publications from the same series; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • bound with other publications from the same series; page images at archive.org
• Tempted London: Young Men (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, c1889) (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Race Decadence: An Examination of the Causes of Racial Degeneracy in the United States (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1922), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Degeneration (4th edition, trans. from the second German ed.; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Max Simon Nordau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Degeneration (fifth edition, trans. from the second German ed.; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Max Simon Nordau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tendencies Toward Race Degeneracy (reprinted from the New York Medical Journal by US Senator Townsend; Washington: GPO, 1912), by John Harvey Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1902), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at Google)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• The Heart of Darkness (as originally published in 3 parts in Blackwood's, 1899), by Joseph Conrad (page images at conradfirst.net)

• Neurobiology of Huntington's Disease: Applications to Drug Discovery (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Donald C. Lo and Robert E. Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Neurobiology of Huntington's Disease: Applications to Drug Discovery (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Donald C. Lo and Robert E. Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)

• The Twelve Books of John Cassian on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults, by John Cassian (HTML at osb.org)

• The Complaint of Nature, by Alanus de Insulis, trans. by Douglas Maxwell Moffat (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Russell Scott Valentino (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Practice of Humility: A Treatise (sixth edition; London: Burns and Oates; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1898), by Pope Leo XIII, trans. by Joseph Jerome Vaughan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Book of Golden Deeds (London, Glasgow and Mumbai: Blackie And Son Limited, ca.1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Book of Golden Deeds, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text and HTML)
• A Shilling Book of Golden Deeds, for the Use of Parochial Schools and Libraries: Selected From "A Book of Golden Deeds" (London: Macmillan and Co., 1867), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)

• The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Four-Square: or, The Cardinal Virtues, by Joseph Rickaby (HTML at Notre Dame)

• 101 Tools for Tolerance: Simple Ideas for Promoting Equity and Celebrating Diversity (Montgomery, Alabama: Teaching Tolerance, c2000), illust. by Rob Collinet (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Raphael Cohen-Almagor (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Price Tolerance? (Pasadena, CA: San Pasqual Press, 1939), by Syud Hossain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bigotry on Campus: A Planned Response (New York: American Jewish Committee, c1990), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at bjpa.org)
• Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists (Montgomery, AL: Teaching Tolerance, c2004), by Brian Willoughby, illust. by Ulla Puggaard (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• What Price Tolerance (Hewlett, NY: All-American Book, Lecture and Research Bureau, c1928), by Paul M. Winter (page images at HathiTrust)

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