Foundation

Examples

• I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The necessary connexion betwixt causes and effects is the foundation of our inference from one to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We entered, and the pilgrims broke specimens from the foundation walls, though they had to touch, and even step, upon the praying carpets to do it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The distinction, which we often make betwixt POWER and the EXERCISE of it, is equally without foundation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The height of the leveling strips, plus the height of the bed, lift its surface about six inches from the foundation floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These machines were also upon a solid foundation, and no trouble was experienced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But this is a beauty merely of imagination, and has no foundation in what appears to the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United States. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The former are the foundation of all our thoughts and actions, so that upon their removal human nature must immediately perish and go to ruin. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What if those wild accusations rested on a foundation of truth? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One reason for this is that the dye used to color the fabric requires a clear white background, and loses its characteristic hues when its foundation is yellow instead of white. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But James's services cannot be overestimated: if he did not lay even the foundations of a science, he did lay some of the foundations for research. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With such foundations as these, it is little wonder that Baalbec has lasted so long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Recent examples of such construction are the Woolworth and Equitable buildings in New York City; in this last instance a thousand horse-power was used in digging the foundations alone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lavoisier had laid deep and broad in France the foundations of chemistry, and given the science nomenclature that lasted a century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But these are only the first foundations of the affections of pity and malice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If I once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage, in virtue of which it was given to me, it was lost, and could never be recovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What sort of a life could we build on such foundations? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• According to Bacon it is in the process of exclusion that the foundations of true induction are laid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In mathematics, say Thatcher and Schwill,[333] the Arabs built on the foundations of the Greek mathematicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nay, even the old mean Marshalsea was shaken to its foundations when she pictured it without her father. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He strove to rebuild on reasoned foundations the sense of social obligation and responsibility which had in the earlier days of Athens rested upon faith in the existence of the gods. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• All these kinds of probability are received by philosophers, and allowed to be reasonable foundations of belief and opinion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And in this new electrical industry, in laying its essential foundations, Edison has again been one of the dominant figures. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There are various ways, equally conclusive, of criticizing this conception, in both its alleged foundations and in its educational application. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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