Rules

Examples

• Your god rules at the bridal of kings; look at your royal dynasties! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus our general rules are in a manner set in opposition to each other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Against the rules,' said Mr. Tuckle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Property must be stable, and must be fixed by general rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The philosopher himself has lost the love of truth, and the soldier, who is of a simpler and honester nature, rules in his stead. Plato. The Republic.
• It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it, and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. Plato. The Republic.
• At these tables the _élite_ of the company were to be entertained, strict rules of equality not being more in fashion at Briarfield than elsewhere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Sedley was not of the sunflower sort; and I say it is out of the rules of all proportion to draw a violet of the size of a double dahlia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A like reflection on general rules keeps us from augmenting our belief upon every encrease of the force and vivacity of our ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• General rules will bear hard on particular cases. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I really am so wholly ignorant of the rules of this place,' returned Mr. Pickwick, 'that I do not yet comprehend you. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I think it desirable for him to know nothing more than that he must not overwork himself, and must observe certain rules. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, really, I quite forget; but the Eparch of Santorin rules over Amorgos, Anapli, Santorin, and Ios. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• What are the rules which men naturally observe, in exchanging them either for money, or for one another, I shall now proceed to examine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You, gentlemen, are requested to draw up rules of your own. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We could not and ought not to be rigidly bound by the rules laid down under circumstances so different for emergencies so utterly unanticipated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You may learn to paint in strict accordance with the rules of art. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It being one of Mr Wegg's guiding rules in life always to partake, he says he will. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The well-taught muscles of Lord Petersham's face were nearly giving way, not only against all superfine Chesterfieldian rules, but common civility. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You saw that we, who understand and practise those rules, believed all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And, ma'am, he continued, the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Another large part of his recorded utterances is aimed against the meticulous observance of the rules of the pious career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They do not, however, adopt his system of lots, but bring together the best natures, male and female, 'according to philosophical rules. Plato. The Republic.
• He has broken the rules in some fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes;--with our present medical rules and education, one must be satisfied now and then to meet with a fair practitioner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They seem to be ignorant of the simplest rules of discipline. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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