Considerations

Examples

• The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The same principle has application on the side of the considerations which concern the relations of one nation to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But the light of that day's discovery, shining on these considerations, roused him to take a more decided course of action. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The ethical considerations do not concern us here. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At the point at which matters had now arrived, I rose superior to all considerations of mere expediency. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The same considerations apply to the value of a study or a topic of a study with reference to its motivating force. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• May it not have been from such considerations that the ancient philosophers supposed a sphere of fire to exist above the air of our atmosphere? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These private considerations, combined with political reasons, fixed his resolution of separating the cousins. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Whatever considerations I may have thought of against this offer, I have conquered, and I make it with all my heart. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the day of a future judgment, these very considerations may make it more tolerable for him than for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They may possibly clash with more imperative considerations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We state these considerations here merely as suggestions that have been made of the way in which the association of seedtime and sacrifice arose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As these considerations occurred to her in painful succession, she wept for him, more than for herself. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Several considerations, however, render the fertility of domestic varieties less remarkable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Our further task is to extract and make explicit the idea of philosophy implicit in these considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Whether or not social efficiency is an aim which is consistent with culture turns upon these considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She seemed to take an inexplicable pride in my answer--to find a comfort in it which no other and higher considerations could afford. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Moreover, Dr. Gunther has recently been led by several considerations to infer that with fishes the same forms have a long endurance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She was roused from these unprofitable considerations by a whispered request from her hostess, who drew her apart as they left the luncheon-table. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But there, upon his sofa, a tremendous consideration breaks in upon the mild gentleman, putting all softer considerations to the rout. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Judged by mere worldly considerations and probabilities, his story is a very doubtful one. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• These considerations move me to put in a paragraph of dry facts just here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Action with a purpose is deliberate; it involves a consciously foreseen end and a mental weighing of considerations pro and eon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From these considerations, it appeared to be the interest of Great Britain to gain the possession of Canada. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The mind turns outward to truth; the emotions turn inward to considerations of personal advantage and loss. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hortense had been kept at home by prudent considerations relative to the rain and a new spring _chapeau_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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