Limitation

Examples

• At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The philosophy of her nature, and its limitation by circumstances, was almost written in her movements. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In the subsequent chapters (XVIII-XXII) we considered the present limitation of its actual realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His lips trembled and stood apart, as he followed this repudiation of himself; and limitation of her words to her brother. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For many uses the fact that anyone suitably equipped can listen in on a wireless telephone talk would be a serious limitation to its use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The fourth limitation is derived from the inconstancy of the cause of these passions, and from the short duration of its connexion with ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This description must be received with a week-day limitation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But limitation of capacity is one of the things which has to be learned; like other things, it is learned through the experience of consequences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The third limitation is, that the pleasant or painful object be very discernible and obvious, and that not only to ourselves, but to others also. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That civilization had been a civilization of wealth and political power sustained by the limitation and slavery of the great mass of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was the insistence on the limitation which so bored Birkin in Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Both the Christian church and Islam demonstrated the unsoundness of Aristotle's limitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And when the animating motive is desire for private profit or personal power, this limitation is inevitable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Wilson, at least, knows the limitations of his philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were limited in knowledge and outlook; they were limited by the limitations of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The community of will is limited in size by the limitations set upon the possibilities of a community of knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Akbar, like all men, great or petty, lived within the limitations of his period and its circles of ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Inventors have found, however, that high speed is handicapped with certain limitations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thus it was that Tarzan learned by experience the limitations as well as the possibilities of his strange weapon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In fact, the inherent limitations of experience are often urged as the sufficient ground for attention to thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Regard must be had to their traditions, their opportunities, and their limitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I shall close this subject with a reflection derived from these five limitations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There are human limitations even for such a tireless worker as he is. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He saw their limitations and restrictions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was plainly seen that economic and political limitations were ultimately dependent upon limitations of thought and feeling. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You acknowledge no rules--no limitations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The enduring value of these books lies in the clear idea they give us of the quality and limitations of the ruling minds of this age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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