Reflections

Examples

• In such a Kaleidoscope, the circular figure will be formed by three reflections from each glass. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I shall conclude this subject with two reflections, which may deserve our attention. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I will not here make reflections on any person's judgment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Twill therefore be proper, before we leave this subject, to bestow a few reflections on that passion, and shew its origin in human nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Such reflections appear visionary to the eye of the practical statesman, but they are within the range of possibility to the philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
• Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• These reflections made our legislators pause, before they could decide on the laws to be put in force. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This difficulty we may easily solve by the following reflections. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Such are my reflections, Miss Clack, on my way to Brighton. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is true, few can form exact systems of the passions, or make reflections on their general nature and resemblances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My reflections on this theme were still in progress when dinner was announced. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was a certain triteness in these reflections: they were those habitual to young men on the approach of their wedding day. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• At all which moral reflections, Master Bardell howled the louder. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Her imagination was busy, her reflections were pleasant, and the pain of a sprained ankle was disregarded. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I sat in a chair on the other side of the hearth, lost in unhappy reflections, and looking at the fire too, and sometimes at her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The next day as I was returning home from my solitary walk, reflections, the most despondingly melancholy, crowded on my mind. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away, and indulged in the most melancholy reflections. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Quite other feelings absorb his reflections and govern his faculties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My reflections closed in an audibly pronounced word, Graham! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Reflections won't do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His apprehension was so clear, and his judgment so exact, that he made very wise reflections and observations upon all I said. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I was interrupted while making these wise reflections by a visit from Wellington. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Such reflections require a work a-part, very different from the genius of the present. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr. Pickwick had been so absorbed in these reflections, that a knock at the door was three or four times repeated before he heard it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Only by a pupil's own observations, reflections, framing and testing of suggestions can what he already knows be amplified and rectified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My reflections were interrupted by my servant, who brought me a letter from George Brummell, full of nonsensical vows and professions. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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