(1) Even in a civil republic, leaders would emerge who had the quality of virtu , who could negotiate with fortune, and who understood political necessity.(2) This, then, is the sign of virtu in rulers and citizens alike: each must be prepared to advance not his own interests but the general good, not his own posterity but the common fatherland.(3) Cavendish is appropriating Machiavellian virtu as a female as well as male quality.(4) These may be divided into three sometimes overlapping categories: relics, souvenirs, and objects of (sometimes easy) virtu .(5) He singles out two essential methods of organizing home affairs in such a way as to instil the quality of virtu in the whole body of the citizens.(6) Queen Charlotte was hardly mentioned, even though she was an avid collector of gems, natural history specimens and objets de vertu .(7) Post's financial resources enabled her to purchase works of primarily French and Russian origin in a wide variety of categories including furniture, porcelain, glass, textiles, and objets de vertu .(8) Here he assembled a large but indifferent collection of objects of virtu , prints, and curiosities, several of which were purchased in Italy by Mann, which attracted fashionable attention.(9) The paintings hung in a small cabinet in which were also located a number of antiquities and objets de vertu , in a heterogeneous arrangement like that of a wonder collection.(10) Sothely as a man goynge fer in pilgrimage, clepide his seruauntis, and bitoke to hem his goodis; And to oon he aue fyue talentis, forsothe to an other two, but to an other oon, to eche after his owne vertu ; and went forth anoon.
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