Foundations

Examples

• 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.
• Clym reached the hatches, the framework of which was shaken to its foundations by the velocity of the current. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is impossible to say on what foundations this man built his hopes of being able to carry on such an imposture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A beautiful literature was produced; the plastic arts flourished, and the foundations of modern science were laid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The extreme height of the structure is 361 feet above the water level, and the foundations extend 91 feet below the water level. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He said, that these were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The charitable foundations of scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Plenty of sleep, exercise, and simple food all tend to lay the foundations of health. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Then, I said, our guardians must lay the foundations of their fortress in music? Plato. The Republic.
• The laying of bridge and pier foundations, in fact all work which must be done under water, is possible only through the agency of compression pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• By the argument it contains against a particular Providence, though you allow a general Providence, you strike at the foundations of all religion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They laid the foundations upon which we base our political thought to-day, but for a long time they had no very great effect on contemporary politics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Inputed by Leila