Individuals

Examples

• However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
• Individuals use one another so as to get desired results, without reference to the emotional and intellectual disposition and consent of those used. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We together fixed the prices to be paid for the negro labor, whether rendered to the government or to individuals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is used in a similar manner in nearly all the large stores, and by many individuals in their business correspondence. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But I should pine after my kind; no, not my kind, for love for my species could never fill my heart to the utter exclusion of love for individuals. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Most individuals would find it hard to come up to his level. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I met a dozen individuals during that month who were not going to Europe shortly, I have no distinct remembrance of it now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that where individuals are free to advance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• According to this theory, social control of individuals rests upon the instinctive tendency of individuals to imitate or copy the actions of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Differences of economic opportunity then dictate what the future callings of individuals are to be. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But it would not have isolated the individual from the world, and consequently isolated individuals--in theory--from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• That of the greater part of deeds of other kinds, is frequently inconvenient and even dangerous to individuals, without any advantage to the public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We have named but a few names of individuals; though henceforth the personal names must increase in number. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As against it, or as compared with it, the conscious ideas and preference of individuals are impotent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• More individuals are born than can possibly survive. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In some individuals, appetites naturally dominate; they are assigned to the laboring and trading class, which expresses and supplies human wants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Does the degree and direction of the instinct markedly differ among different individuals or races, or between the two sexes? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He names individuals among them (myself included), whom he could undertake to settle with one hand, and the other tied behind him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their expense in general, therefore, cannot be much increased by them, though that of a few individuals among them may, and in reality sometimes is. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every species of living things is continually dying and being born again, as a multitude of fresh individuals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When the individuals are scanty all will be allowed to breed, whatever their quality may be, and this will effectually prevent selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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