Modes

Examples

• That this cannot take place in modes, is evident from considering their mature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Comparatively speaking, such modes of influence may be regarded as personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-experience is arrested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The idea of a dance is an instance of the first kind of modes; that of beauty of the second. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• While most of us think of burning as a process in which flames and smoke occur, there are in reality many modes of burning accompanied by neither flame nor smoke. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No mode of behavior more imperiously demands knowledge of established modes of diagnosis and treatment than does his. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. Plato. The Republic.
• Social relationships and modes of organized action are reduced to their lowest terms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As the other metals, gold, silver, copper and lead often occur together, and in the same deposits with iron, the same general modes of treatment to extract them are often applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In their modes of expressing thought, these two generals contrasted quite as strongly as in their other characteristics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The difference between them is not the difference between growth and no growth, but between the modes of growth appropriate to different conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• More important modes of progress consist in enriching prior purposes and in forming new ones. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here, naturally, different tones arise, corresponding to the different modes of vibration. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Every hospital, board of health, and organized medical and sanitary body predicates its laws and modes of treatment upon the principles of bacteriology. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is to discover objects and modes of action, which are connected with present powers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Modes of Social Direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Those modes of taxation by stamp duties and by duties upon registration, are of very modern invention. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It may be used either as a dry powder or may be dissolved in water and applied in the usual modes to the substances to be preserved. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Electric baths are also common and effective modes of applying the electric current. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But we have risen by different modes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;--he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. Plato. The Republic.
• Modes of purposeful doing include dealings with persons as well as things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Some modes of expense, however, seem to contribute more to the growth of public opulence than others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The segregation which kills the vitality of history is divorce from present modes and concerns of social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Its earliest modes of manufacture were doubtless still followed when Dr Livingstone explored the interior, as they now also are. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The modes of treating this milky juice varies among the natives of the several countries where the trees abound. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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