Founded

Examples

• Oh, take me to your heart, my husband, for my love was founded on a rock, and it endures! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Trinity Church was founded in 1696 and rebuilt in 1839. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Storey, who subsequently founded the Chicago Times, and became celebrated in the newspaper world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nor is it less infallible, because men cannot distinctly explain the principles, on which it is founded. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species of immorality; but it is only a secondary one, and is founded on some other, antecedent to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But it is not merely this affair, she continued, on which my dislike is founded. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But I have never changed in my devotion to her, except--if she will forgive my saying so--that it is deeper than it was, and better founded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He founded a settlement in the Rio de Oro (on Kerne or Herne Island), and sailed on past the Senegal river. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The second founded a professorship of experimental chemistry at a northern university. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Louis Moore's doubts respecting the immediate evacuation of Fieldhead by Mr. Sympson turned out to be perfectly well founded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is founded upon the observation of trifles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This medal was founded in 1902 by the professional friends and associates of the veteran American ironmaster and metallurgical inventor, in honor of his eightieth birthday. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This independency of the clergy of France upon the court of Rome seems to be principally founded upon the pragmatic sanction and the concordat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Or, assuming it to be false, could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been founded in some inconceivable error? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness, said Dorothea, who was interesting herself in finding a favorable explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With the Volta prize he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington for the use of students. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• O expectations founded on the favor of close old gentlemen! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• None of them can go beyond experience, or establish any principles which are not founded on that authority. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I thank you heartily again and am proud to think of the Rouncewells as they'll be founded by you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He built the great and beautiful church of Saint Sophia in Constantinople, founded a university, and codified the law. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And if there be, in what does its nature differ from love founded in long observation and slow growth? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Both the objection and the reply are founded in the popular notion which I have been just now examining. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are all of them founded on the same fallacy, and are derived from the same turn of thought. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No art or trade could be founded on it; no diminution of daily work or increase of daily comfort could be secured with it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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