Conventions

Examples

• In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Edison phonograph industry thus organized is helped by frequent conventions of this large commercial force. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In like manner are languages gradually established by human conventions without any promise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was the right conventional attitude, and, as far as the world went, he believed in the conventions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Phil