Qualities

Examples

• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
• Deteriorated, that is to say, in the good qualities of horses, not of dogs? Plato. The Republic.
• Having discovered this relation, which requires no farther examination, I am curious to find some other of their qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He stamped these qualities upon his time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thirdly, The nature and qualities of that idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• With all these qualities, why are you not in practice? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There is not one of these objects, but what by its different qualities may produce love and esteem, or hatred and contempt. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Don't you remember that you asked me not to declare what I thought of your higher qualities until you had been tried? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He maintained all his delightful qualities to the last, until we started forth, at eight o'clock, for Mr. Peggotty's boat. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Wit, and a certain easy and disengaged behaviour, are qualities immediately agreeable to others, and command their love and esteem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What qualities are there for which a man gets so speedy a return of applause, as those of bodily superiority, activity, and valour? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is the same case with judgment and capacity, and all the qualities of that kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He loves your daughter very much; he feels her finest qualities, and they influence him worthily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The last of those qualities which make a state virtuous must be justice, if we only knew what that was. Plato. The Republic.
• But this effect of personal and bodily qualities is not only a proof of. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Water gas has neither the illuminating nor the heating qualities of coal gas, and it is also much more poisonous. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The qualities, that produce both, are agreeable, and give pleasure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr Merdle, with a dry, swallowing action, seemed to dispose of those qualities like a bolus; then added, 'As a sort of return for it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Typist: Pierce