Arts

Examples

• Again you find us, Miss Summerson, said he, using our little arts to polish, polish! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But thou promised to teach us all thy arts for the money we pay thee, objected Hielman, who was of an avaricious turn of mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There remained throughout the whole period considerable areas in which the elaboration of the arts of life could go on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My quarto edition of the same, 'Arts et Metiers', I give to the Library Company of Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He had his own theories of the arts of public address. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Leave it by all means, advised the Father, for be sure that no good will come of these strange arts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Damsel, he said, if the pity I feel for thee arise from any practice thine evil arts have made on me, great is thy guilt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And this is what the arts of music and gymnastic, when present in such manner as we have described, will accomplish? Plato. The Republic.
• But some of the poorer free citizens followed mechanic arts, and, as we have already noted, would even pull an oar in a galley for pay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The electric furnace, stimulated into higher heat by the dynamo than can be otherwise obtained, has brought about many valuable discoveries, and made great advances in various arts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All these, and many more useful arts, too many to be enumerated here, wholly depend upon the aforesaid sciences, namely, arithmetic and geometry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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