Principles

Examples

• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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.
• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. Plato. The Republic.
• Nor is it less infallible, because men cannot distinctly explain the principles, on which it is founded. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• How then shall we adjust those principles together? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These principles I allow to be neither the infallible nor the sole causes of an union among ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The originality of his principles, his eloquence, and his great physical strength and beauty created a profound sensation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If right principles ruled through the kingdom, there would be no necessity for me to change its state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your judgment is well balanced, your heart is kind, your principles are sound. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In 1844 he proceeded to apply the principles maintained in his earlier study to changes of temperature as related to changes in the density of gases. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer than life before it could be brought to an end. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here then is the proper business of municipal laws, to fix what the principles of human nature have left undetermined. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have got my principles, thank God. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Quakers, whose principles are opposed to fighting, even in their own defence, were most active upon this occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the subordination of particulars to general principles he experienced a satisfaction akin to the sen se of beauty or the joy of artistic production. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I like you very well, Mr. Yorke, as you know, but I thoroughly dislike some of your principles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And now you prevaricate; you have no principles! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the generation of this mighty force improvements have been made, but those of greatest power still involve the principles discovered by Faraday and Henry seventy years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The same principles are followed by horticulturists; but the variations are here often more abrupt. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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