| Ay, but by your own virtue and continency that matter of fact is all his own doing. |
| The public morals are insecure till the family is chastely planted, the state guarded by the continency of its male members. |
| He draws a distinction between the Germanes and the Brahmins on the subject of continency, the Brahmins being polygamists. |
| By continency verily are we bound up and brought back into One, whence we were dissipated into many. |
| The reason for this was and is that perfect continency for the love of God is an incentive to charity, and is certainly a particular source of spiritual fecundity in the world. |
| It is difficult to believe that the free men deprived of women were all gifted with the virtue of continency. |
