Multiplicity

Examples

• Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I was just beginning to suspect from the multiplicity of your questions that you did. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena. Plato. The Republic.
• He paid homage both to the multiplicity and the uniform ity of nature, the wealth of the phenomena and the simplicity of the law explaining the phenomena. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Then, I said, if these and these only are to be used in our songs and melodies, we shall not want multiplicity of notes or a panharmonic scale? Plato. The Republic.
• In 1763 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny (see Fig. 285), in which a multiplicity of spindles was employed, whereby one person could attend to the making of many threads simultaneously. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This saves the duplication and multiplicity of a vast number of extra keys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• On the other hand, a multiplicity of objects can never convey this idea, however resembling they may be supposed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The former secures unity, order, and law; the latter signify multiplicity and discord, irrational fluctuations from one estate to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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