Rewards
[rɪ'wɔːdz] or [rɪ'wɔrdz]
Examples
- On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescension of its lovely presence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were numerous brothers and sisters, and the family pursued the French authorities with importunities for rewards and jobs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And yet no mention has been made of the greatest prizes and rewards which await virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- Setting aside their rewards and results, I want to know what they are in themselves, and how they inwardly work in the soul. Plato. The Republic.
- The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yes, he said, and glorious rewards they are. Plato. The Republic.
- By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree and eternal in duration: I can do nothing to deserve such rewards. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And now you shall repay me what you borrowed; and I will enumerate the rewards of justice in life and after death. Plato. The Republic.
- Motivation through rewards extraneous to the thing to be done has a like effect. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some extend their rewards yet further; the posterity, as they say, of the faithful and just shall survive to the third and fourth generation. Plato. The Republic.
- Is it thus that Greece Rewards her combatants? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thinking is the method of intelligent learning, of learning that employs and rewards mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In statecraft the penalties and rewards are tremendous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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