Civilized

Examples

• I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Italy lay in the centre of what was at that time the improved and civilized part of the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a civilized people for long ages before the fair Aryan Greeks spread southward through Macedonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The savage is merely habituated; the civilized man has habits which transform the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Partly the Huns were civilized and assimilated by the Chinese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In America, the Bell speaking telephone, invented in 1876, was known all over the civilized world the same year. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilized nations in their neighbourhood; a nation of shepherds may. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Probably no other thing than water is used more by all civilized people than salt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are looking for a readjustment of their relations to the home, to work, to children, to men, to the interests of civilized life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were neither so abundant nor so civilized as the still more widely diffused Greeks, but they had a tradition of greater solidarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• Electric lighting, introduced in 1882, has become practically the standard for illumination, not only here, but for the entire civilized world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Practically every civilized country in the world, except the United States, had one or more cyanamid factories in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No civilized men eat raw flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism. Plato. The Republic.
• But rich and civilized nations can always exchange to a much greater value with one another, than with savages and barbarians. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The therns for their part have temples dotted about the entire civilized world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• What a wanton waste of talent is that for a civilized nation! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were becoming civilized when I left Juan Fernandez,' says Lightwood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The task of politics is to understand those deeper demands and to find civilized satisfactions for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You would think, to hear them talk, that they are peculiarly civilized--especially gentle and kindly of disposition to their fellow-men. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is done by no civilized nation in Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We are not civilized enough to meet an issue before it becomes acute. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That scene again is almost incredibly cruel to a modern civilized reader. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• It is clear that the earliest civilized governments were essentially priestly governments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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