Practices

Examples

• We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are those who, by these practices, take a great deal in a year out of the public purse, and put the money into their own private pockets. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Was not the only true, because the only moral, life gained through obedient habituation to the customary practices of the community? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is only by degrees that the great body of mankind can be led into new practices, however salutary their tendency. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I allow no such practices with gentlemen on my place, said Mr. Shelby, with as much sternness as he could command, under the circumstances. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Happy with a man of libertine practices! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Systems of government and theories of the state have been built upon this notion, and it has seriously affected educational ideas and practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• While at Bethlehem I inquired a little into the practices of the Moravians; some of them had accompanied me, and all were very kind to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But mankind can with difficulty be brought to lay aside established practices, or to adopt new ones. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Strange practices, these,' said Mr. Pickwick; half speaking to himself and half addressing Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In the first place, the principle rules out certain practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ideals, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bramah's press illustrates how the theories of one age often lie dormant, but if true become the practices of a succeeding age. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And do not good practices lead to virtue, and evil practices to vice? Plato. The Republic.
• Machiavelli's morals are not one bit worse than the practices of the men who rule the world to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such questions may give us pause in deciding upon the extent to which current practices are adapted to develop reflective habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This charge of necromancy is right often used for cloaking evil practices on our people. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Elliot Smith traces these practices in a sort of constellation all over this great Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Pacific area. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To be used intelligently, existing practices, however authorized they may be, have to be adapted to the exigencies of particular cases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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