Wholly

Examples

• Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• No organism wholly soft can be preserved. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And they are wholly inexplicable on any other view. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. Plato. The Republic.
• Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Now, things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Yet the thought of Plato may not be wholly incapable of application to our own times. Plato. The Republic.
• Nay, are they not wholly different? Plato. The Republic.
• I am so much attached to you that I may confide in you, my dear, as a third party wholly disinterested, that he is fickleness itself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Or if it was partly, was it wholly and entirely? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The delineation of Socrates in the Republic is not wholly consistent. Plato. The Republic.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
• No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Now make haste,' said Mr. Wardle; for the fat boy was hanging fondly over a capon, which he seemed wholly unable to part with. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Is _man_ ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Why, as for the duke, said Montagu, he was wholly guided in this business by Lord Worcester. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They cannot be wholly false, thought I, or he would write. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Any pleasure, with which we are acquainted, affects us more than any other, which we own to be superior, but of whose nature we are wholly ignorant. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I know it certainly, but I believe we have never wholly trusted each other. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When he had 'worked round,' as he called it, to Paris in his pilgrimage, and had wholly failed in it so far, he was not disheartened. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But the child, wholly exhausted, cried with weariness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• All these, and many more useful arts, too many to be enumerated here, wholly depend upon the aforesaid sciences, namely, arithmetic and geometry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• 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.
• This is wholly unexpected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What the acid does, the base undoes, either wholly or in part. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To Kitty, however, it does not seem so wholly unexpected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I was not in this slight distress because I at all repined--I am quite certain I did not, that day--but, I thought, would she be wholly prepared? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This led to the view that knowledge is won wholly through personal and private experiences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The formation of mind is wholly a matter of the presentation of the proper educational materials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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