Doctrine

Examples

• According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And this may be received as a convincing argument for our preceding doctrine with regard to property and justice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Socrates answers that this is the doctrine of Thrasymachus which he rejects. Plato. The Republic.
• But all men cannot preach or teach; doctrine is but one of many of the functions of life that are fundamentally righteous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The whole of this doctrine leads us to a conclusion, which is of great importance in the present affair, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Since no one has stated in the doctrine both its truth and falsity better than Rousseau, we shall turn to him. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They could not believe this hard doctrine of a kingdom of service which was its own exceeding great reward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such, apparently, is the simple doctrine of this typical imperialist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A small point of doctrine might mean affluence or beggary to a man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In the later nineteenth century, this type of idealism was amalgamated with the doctrine of biological evolution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In general, it presents us with an almost complete reversal of the classic doctrine of the relations of experience and reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We do not have to draw out or educe positive activities from a child, as some educational doctrines would have it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Have you any difficulties about doctrines--about the Articles? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Howbeit in vain do they worship me, Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I've never changed; I'm a plain Churchman now, just as I used to be before doctrines came up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This principle being once admitted, all the other doctrines of that philosophy seem to follow by an easy consequence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What doctrines, Joe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And of course it is a discredit to his doctrines, said Mrs. Sprague, who was elderly, and old-fashioned in her opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was under Charles that the Protestant doctrines that now prevailed in Germany spread into the Netherlands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It appears that the doctrines of life and death, in general, are yet but little understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One may hear Manich?an doctrines from many Christian pulpits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A new political party was growing up in the state, the Social Democrats, professing the doctrines of Marx. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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