Nations

Examples

• There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Or--mark my words--the Order of the Temple will be utterly demolished--and the Place thereof shall no more be known among the nations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He sees no hope of happiness or peace for mankind until all nations of the earth are comprehended in a single empire. Plato. The Republic.
• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Five Nations of the Iroquois (see map, p. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For in every state there are two hostile nations, rich and poor, which you may set one against the other. Plato. The Republic.
• Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The like prohibition seems anciently to have made a part of the policy of most other European nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He believed that Free Trade would tend to abolish many of the difficulties that divided nations, and he wrote a paper on that subject, addressed to the French Directory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With heroes of many nations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Truly it fulfils the prophecy so gracefully expressed in the verses quoted, and has become the common bond of union among the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why should not the law of nations go on improving? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But there are nations so cowardly that they dare not merely conquer their enemies; they must _mak siccar_ and destroy them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were but two nations in America, in any respect, superior to the savages, and these were destroyed almost as soon as discovered. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We shall be interested primarily in the way nations established their civilization in spite of hostile conditions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They sought (hating war as most of them did) to establish a universal culture, or, as they phrased it, a constant intelligence throughout all civil nations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To-day the cable with the still small voice, more divine than human, speaks with one accent to all the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilized nations in their neighbourhood; a nation of shepherds may. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ambassadors of the other nations asked us to take the matter in hand and hasten the assistant keeper to the plant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The Eastern nations have used corundum for this purpose for ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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