Qualifications

Examples

• But as this was an ineffectual protest, I then said, more particularly, that I was not sure of my qualifications. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Certainly the elimination of male from the suffrage qualifications will not end the feminist agitation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here is Mr. Micawber with a variety of qualifications--with great talent--' 'Really, my love,' said Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr Wegg then goes on to enlarge upon what throughout has been uppermost in his crafty mind:--the qualifications of Mr Venus for such a search. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The qualifications of the body, unless supported by those of the mind, can give little authority in any period of society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But there must be some one with the requisite qualifications. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• After many patient experiments he finished a small model of a press which seemed to him to combine all the qualifications needed for his work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The qualifications of the mind can alone give very great authority. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sedgwick was killed at Spottsylvania before I had an opportunity of forming an estimate of his qualifications as a soldier from personal observation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the latter term may be used to indicate a number of qualifications which are vaguer than vocational ability. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bearing these qualifications in mind, we shall proceed to state some of the characteristics found in all good educational aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You have no special qualifications. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Brooke, meanwhile, having lost other clews, fell back on himself and his qualifications--always an appropriate graceful subject for a candidate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His services and qualifications are eminently deserving of this recognition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now that unchanged serenity, and gentle compliance were added to her other qualifications, his respect equalled his love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Distinction and station were not the qualifications of their election. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These companies are officered from the cadets, the superintendent and commandant selecting the officers for their military bearing and qualifications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Whatever General Pierce's qualifications may have been for the Presidency, he was a gentleman and a man of courage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The man, however, must not only live by his trade, but live by it suitably to the qualifications which it requires. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then, too, I had not yet learned the special qualifications of the different corps commanders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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