Endowments

Examples

• How can it be otherwise than sweet with your endowments and nature? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Have those public endowments contributed in general, to promote the end of their institution? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is possible that without his endowments from the king he would have made but a small figure in intellectual history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Vengeance and the Juryman, looking after her as she walked away, were highly appreciative of her fine figure, and her superb moral endowments. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The early death of Alexander and the breaking up of his empire almost before it had begun, put an end to endowments on this scale for 2000 years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Amongst her other endowments she boasted an exquisite skill in the art, of provocation, sometimes driving her _bonne_ and the servants almost wild. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished, more or less, the necessity of application in the teachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Will not such an one from his early childhood be in all things first among all, especially if his bodily endowments are like his mental ones? Plato. The Republic.
• It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not for love. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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