Therefore above the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most majestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed every whear, / And of their golden virges none desceptred wear.

For an appreciable time he did not think of rising from his seat.

But this descriptive commonplace is not sufficient to account for the sort of comportability-predicated integrity we have been talking about.

Robert Wuthnow's (1987)...view is that the moral order is the system of all real and conceivable moral codes that define the nature of commitment to a particular course of behaviour. These elements...have an identifiable symbolic structure.