Limitations

Examples

• 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.
• He had the same subtle unreasonableness of transition and the same limitations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lily's own view of her wavered between pity for her limitations and impatience at her cheerful acceptance of them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With a just sense of his limitations he undertook to write, not as a literary man, but as an architect. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In the past six years there must have been a destruction of fixed ideas, prejudices, and mental limitations unparalleled in all history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They attributed these evils to the limitations imposed upon the free powers of man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The first of these limitations was the obsession of the Greek mind by the idea of the city as the ultimate state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The emphasis must be put upon whatever binds people together in cooperative human pursuits and results, apart from geographical limitations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Devotion to the cause of reason meant breaking through the limitations of custom and getting at things as they really were. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But I have often felt that Mr. Edison never could comprehend the limitations of the strength of other men, as his own physical and mental strength have always seemed to be without limit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All imitative art is subject to certain limitations, and therefore necessarily partakes of the nature of a compromise. Plato. The Republic.
• This will easily be accounted for, if we consider the second and fourth limitations, proposed to our general system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

Typist: Oliver