Statements

Examples

• As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His satisfaction was not removed by Rebecca's own statements, behaviour, and conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this effect, I cannot find even one which seems to me of any weight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is not to be inferred, however, from some of the preceding statements that the boy was of an exclusively studious bent of mind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Two conclusions emerge from these general statements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The statements may help a teacher to a larger vision of the possible results to be effected by instruction in mathematical topics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The reader must keep in mind that we are endeavouring to give him plain statements that he can take hold of comfortably. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Winsor's absurd statements--in the truth of which he potently believed--and the wild, random manner of making them known, excited much ridicule and opposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The achievement of this aim gives logical character to the statements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now it will be evident that most of these fundamental statements are very questionable statements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A great deal of this narrative is given in Mr. Edison's own language, from oral or written statements made in reply to questions addressed to him with the object of securing accuracy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• How does the recommendation of a stringent and uniform law fit in with these three statements? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At this point it may be well to cite some other statements of Edison as to kindred work, with which he has not usually been associated in the public mind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After this the critic goes on to say: How any one acquainted with the laws of the electric circuit can make such statements is what I cannot understand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If his statements are false, it is because they identify a phase of social custom with a natural necessity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This baffled me, I must confess, fully as much as my statements had confounded her; and I told her so. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Locke's statements fitted well into the dualism of his day. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here we devote a section to certain elementary statements about the movement in men's religious ideas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The statements, the propositions, in which knowledge, the issue of active concern with problems, is deposited, are taken to be themselves knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The theory of the four elements--the hot, the cold, the moist, the dry--led to dogmatic statements with little attempt at verification. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But it is likely that elaborate statements regarding this primary stage of knowledge will darken understanding. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• According to the advertised statements of the various leading manufacturers we are forced to make our own if we desire a pure and wholesome article. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Both of these statements are false. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This is an unseasonable hour, but here is a young woman who has been making statements which render my visit necessary. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And again: it seemed no wrong to keep Raffles at a distance, but Mr. Bulstrode shrank from the direct falsehood of denying true statements. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They dismantled their machines, made public statements of what they had accomplished, and started to negotiate with various governments for the purchase of their aeroplanes for use in war. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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