Guardians

Examples

• But would any of your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? Plato. The Republic.
• Her guardians, my dear. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Was not the selection of the male guardians determined by differences of this sort? Plato. The Republic.
• They are taught what their parents or guardians judge it necessary or useful for them to learn, and they are taught nothing else. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. Plato. The Republic.
• You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are having children. Plato. The Republic.
• Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State are to have their wives and families in common. Plato. The Republic.
• Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. Plato. The Republic.
• Such parts of education, however, were abandoned altogether to the care of the parents or guardians of each individual. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Will not the guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the profession of some kind of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
• In the next place, drunkenness and softness and indolence are utterly unbecoming the character of our guardians. Plato. The Republic.
• And the reason of this, over and above the general constitution of the State, will be that the guardians will have a community of women and children? Plato. The Republic.
• They become the citizen-subjects of the state; its defenders in war; its internal guardians in peace. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He certainly thinks that the women ought to share in the education of the guardians, and to fight by their side. Plato. The Republic.
• The two together supply our guardians with their twofold nature. Plato. The Republic.
• I am inclined to think that this is the sort of way in which our rulers and guardians should be chosen and appointed. Plato. The Republic.
• Yes, he said, that must be done if the breed of the guardians is to be kept pure. Plato. The Republic.
• And as we are to have the best of guardians for our city, must they not be those who have most the character of guardians? Plato. The Republic.
• They were to be guardians, not holiday-makers. Plato. The Republic.
• And in our opinion the guardians ought to have both these qualities? Plato. The Republic.
• The permanent inhabitants of Mecca were a tribe of Bedouin who had seized this temple and constituted themselves its guardians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The young men whom we before called guardians may be more properly designated auxiliaries and supporters of the principles of the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
• I never thought that I had a curious couple of guardians, in my aunt and Mr. Dick. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The remainder of the work is filled up with digressions foreign to the main subject, and with discussions about the education of the guardians. Plato. The Republic.
• The rattle was sprung, and behold Elliston and Livius surrounded by the guardians of the night. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have answered me, I replied: Well, and may we not further say that our guardians are the best of our citizens? Plato. The Republic.
• Sons trained like your Henrique will be grand guardians of your powder-magazines, said Augustine,--so cool and self-possessed! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Here, then, is a discovery of new evils, I said, against which the guardians will have to watch, or they will creep into the city unobserved. Plato. The Republic.
• In the first place the guardians must abstain from strong drink, for they should be the last persons to lose their wits. Plato. The Republic.
• One woman will be a good guardian, another not; and the good must be chosen to be the colleagues of our guardians. Plato. The Republic.

Editor: Ricky