Advantages

Examples

• Among his other advantages, Lord Raymond was supremely handsome; every one admired him; of women he was the idol. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As to America, the advantages of such a union to her are not so apparent. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The new window gave a view of the road, and had many advantages, as Mrs. Hepworth pointed out. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Did the late Mrs. Betteredge possess those inestimable advantages? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sir, it was only natural that she should incline towards him, for he had many and great advantages. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I had caused a printer's composing case to be set up with the idea that if we could get editors and publishers in to see it, we should show them the advantages of the electric light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Little by little, however, progressive business men saw the advantages to be gained by motor delivery and the motor truck began to gain favor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My sister Sarah, with all the advantages of youth, was, strangely enough, less pliable. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Edison believes that there are important advantages possible in the employment of his storage battery for street-car propulsion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There needs but a very little practice of the world, to make us perceive all these consequences and advantages. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We have observed, that our approbation of those, who are possess d of the advantages of fortune, may be ascribed to three different causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The relation of cause and effect has all the opposite advantages. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mrs Merdle had shown him that the case of Edmund was urgent, and that infinite advantages might result from his having some good thing directly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I do not believe so, except as the advantages spoken of above made them so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This and other difficulties led finally to the adoption of the circular type, whose continuous cut and high speed saved much time and presented many other advantages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The advantages of this process are that the fruit juices will remain sweet indefinitely, will not ferment, and are free from all deleterious matter. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• His evils seemed to lessen, her own advantages to increase, their mutual good to outweigh every drawback. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He's only been plucked twice--so was I--but he's had the advantages of Oxford and a university education. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Advantages of keeping a Snuff-box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But the advantages of iron and steel far outnumber those of wood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One of the advantages of cutting and shocking is that when it is over the force of men employed in this operation can be changed to filling the silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Why, it was but now that you were dwelling in the advantages of a monotony of two. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Such are the advantages which the colonies of America have derived from the policy of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They would all trade with the same advantages and disadvantages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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