Beginnings
[bi'ɡiniŋz]
Examples
- Of the working out of these beginnings we shall tell later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- History can deal with the small beginnings in the past of the great things of the present, but in the present only with what is plain and obvious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this period belong the beginnings of Buddhistic art. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In its rude beginnings, the unimproved wilds, which then occupy the far greater part of the country, are all abandoned to cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With the beginnings of agriculture a fresh set of ideas arose in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have told of the first release of human curiosity and of the beginnings of systematic inquiry and experiment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- History is and must always be no more than an account of beginnings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already, in our first account of Chinese beginnings, noted the existence of these Huns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have dealt thus fully with the beginnings of science in the Middle Ages because of its ultimate importance in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seems to have done so universally in the rude beginnings of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To watch this schism creeping across the brave beginnings of Islam is like watching a case of softening of the brain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This lovely efflorescence marks the appearance of a body of craftsmen closely linked in its beginnings to the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The very small beginnings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To Him alone they attribute the beginnings, the increasings, the proceedings, the changes, and the ends of all things. Plato. The Republic.
- It is hardly necessary to devote space to the beginnings of the enterprise, although they are full of interest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is very interesting to trace how out of the universal mêlée, the beginnings of a new order appeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The beginnings of such things are never conspicuous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From a painted vase, about 550 B.C.] We find all this distribution of the Greeks effected before the beginnings of written history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So this raid of an intolerable egotist across the disordered beginnings of a new time should have closed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is satisfactory, therefore, to be able to trace its history from its very beginnings, of which an interesting account has been published by the inventor himself. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Society, therefore, is from its beginnings the mitigation of ownership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drew better than any of their successors down to the beginnings of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her many beginnings were displayed. Jane Austen. Emma.
- At this ford Rome had its beginnings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first jelly-like beginnings of life must have perished whenever they got out of the water, as jelly-fish dry up and perish on our beaches to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have the very smallest beginnings of an education. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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