'Sir, said Imlac, your ardour is the natural effect of virtue animated by youth: the time will come when you will acquit your father, and perhaps hear with less impatience of the governour. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner Thomas teaches (I: 27: 3), even though the object be external to us, yet the immanent act of love arouses in the soul a state of ardour which is, as it were, an impression of the thing loved. Then it was that combining our forces, and inspired with all the ardour which is naturally excited by the appearance of beauty in distress, we made a desperate sally, and after a fearful skirmish, succeeded in rescuing the lady, and replacing her on the quarter-deck, with the loss only of her cap and gown, and a few handfuls of hair. The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled I speak of the 'Aeneid,' mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. In the mean time, I have been indulging a hope, which at moments has appeared almost a certainty, that Clifton, by our mutual efforts, shall acquire all this true ardour, which is so lovely in Frank. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition The majority of the people, even in their capacity of sovereign, only pretend to employ their senses to feel, when pressed by national inconveniencies, or threatened by public dangers and with the ardour which is apt to arise in crowded assemblies, to urge the pursuits in which they are engaged, or to repel the attacks with which they are menaced. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler The projected instrument was a quadrant of fourteen cubits radius! and Tycho and his friend entered upon its construction with that intense ardour which is ever crowned with success. Window titles are now consistent (and do not include 'ardour'). Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Their ardour was a moral ardour, and the lightest breath of scandal never rested upon them, or upon any phase of Transcendentalism. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's AutobiographyДЄll this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction. He satisfied the ingenuous moral ardour which is instinctive in the best natures, until the dust of daily life dulls or extinguishes it, and at the same time he satisfied the rationalistic qualities, which are not less marked in the youthful temperament of those who by and by do the work of the world. 'Sir,' said Imlac, 'your ardour is the natural effect of virtue animated by youth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Our troops, too, had all the ardour which is added even to the boldest by the assurance of victory. Philanthropic ardour, which is generally the characteristic mark of all the members of the assotiation, that you yet sympathise with us, in our adversity, and rejoice in our prosperity.

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