Universities

Examples

• If there had been any system left to be invented they would have found it out at the universities long before this time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In England, the public schools are much less corrupted than the universities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I will read an extract from a letter written by a lady who received the cream: ‘Universities Mission To Central Africa, ‘Mbweni, Zanzibar, March 8, 1881. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This ancient division of philosophy into three parts was, in the greater part of the universities of Europe, changed for another into five. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The laboratories in such works differ from those in the universities only in being more perfectly equipped, and more sumptuously appointed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At all the courts and universities the telescopes were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and put to instant use in the hope of discovering new stars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What was true of the universities was true of the public schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The universities in England particularly, being primarily clerical in their constitution, resisted the new learning very bitterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All such incorporations were anciently called universities, which, indeed, is the proper Latin name for any incorporation whatever. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have in my hands a text-book of six hundred pages which is used in the largest universities as a groundwork of political economy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such, therefore, was the common course of philosophical education in the greater part of the universities in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The medical profes sion, the universities, the churches, the court, the army, the navy, trade, agriculture, and oth er industries were there represented. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We then find in the growing universities of Paris, Oxford, and Bologna an increasing amount of philosophical discussion going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His father, his grandfather, his uncle, and two brothers had all taught elocution in one form or another at the Universities of Edinburgh, Dublin, and London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The greater part of what is taught in schools and universities, however, does not seem to be the most proper preparation for that business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Closely associated with the Benedictine monasteries were the schools that grew presently into the medieval universities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There are some Spanish universities, I am assured, in which the study of the Greek language has never yet made any part of that course. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have adopted Mr. Cowper's machines for printing vast numbers of Bibles, prayer-books, &c. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The light of these universities shone far beyond the Moslem world, and drew students to them from east and west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Talk of your German universities,' said the little old man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Its example was followed by the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The different governors of the universities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In his first Parliament he distinguished himself by his opposition to the admission of religious dissenters to the universities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a matter of record that chattel slavery in this country was deduced from Biblical injunction, that the universities furnished brains for its defense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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