Societies

Examples

• If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Other societies of Europe were equally ambitious of calling him a member. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You have heard, Walter, of the political societies that are hidden in every great city on the continent of Europe? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So far, he resumed, you think the society like other societies. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We must base our conception upon societies which actually exist, in order to have any assurance that our ideal is a practicable one. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was at some celebration of one of the Royal Societies at the Burlington House, Piccadilly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As numerous and civilized societies cannot subsist without government, so government is entirely useless without an exact obedience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Ellen Olenska especially: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In those barbarous societies, as they are called, every man, it has already been observed, is a warrior. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• At first these agreements had to be made and sustained by secret societies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Besides that, the change will put the humane societies out of business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Is he a member of one of the Water-Colour Societies? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Even in present-day societies, it furnishes the basic nurture of even the most insistently schooled youth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The earlier half of the nineteenth century saw a number of experiments in the formation of trial human societies of a new kind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Agricultural societies and boards were a characteristic product of the eighteenth century in Europe and America. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I thought of the other Societies, too numerous to mention, all built up on this man as on a tower of strength. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Men were first subjugated into more than tribal societies by the fear of monarch and deity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On my return home I started my usual course of collecting every kind of data about gas; bought all the transactions of the gas-engineering societies, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To one of those societies I belonged in Italy--and belong still in England. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I get all the proceedings of the scientific societies, the principal scientific and trade journals, and read them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In static societies, societies which make the maintenance of established custom their measure of value, this conception applies in the main. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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