Classes

Examples

• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They are divided into classes by names indicating their purpose and mode of operation, such as single, double-acting, lift or force, reciprocating or rotary, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What is called Fabian Socialism, the exposition of socialism by the London Fabian Society, makes its appeal to reasonable men of all classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are divided into two great classes, single and double acting engines, accordingly as the water is admitted to one side of the piston only, or to both sides alternately. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them. Plato. The Republic.
• The upper classes were as much beyond the sympathy of the lower as a different species of animal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I said I knew nothing against the upper classes by personal observation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have joined the working classes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He then asks Socrates in which of the three classes he would place justice. Plato. The Republic.
• In that capacity for aggression upon other classes lies the essential driving force of modern affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Military cannon are divided into three classes, based upon the length of caliber, and technically known as guns, mortars and howitzers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Even if they wrangle, classes can talk together and understand each other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It can never be the interest of the unproductive class to oppress the other two classes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men--lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain? Plato. The Republic.
• A more hopeful man might imagine that a closer and more genial intercourse between classes might do away with strikes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The product of Edison's brain may be divided into three classes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Divided into Three Classes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A pompous and unintelligent classical pretentiousness dominated them, and they dominated the schools of the middle and upper classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the death of Queen Victoria, English shop assistants were being badgered to attend evening classes to learn French. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What with schools, and classes here, and private pupils, AND the apprentices, he really has too much to do, poor fellow! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Throughout whole classes various structures are formed on the same pattern, and at a very early age the embryos closely resemble each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Eleemosynary relief never yet tranquillized the working-classes--it never made them grateful; it is not in human nature that it should. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But now that we are determining what classes of subjects are or are not to be spoken of, let us see whether any have been omitted by us. Plato. The Republic.
• Will not the guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the profession of some kind of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.

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