Constitutions
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Examples
- The vital part of the population has pretty well emerged from any dumb acquiescence in constitutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I shall particularly wish to hear what were the four constitutions of which you were speaking. Plato. The Republic.
- That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The person who holds fast to that idea is forever incapable of understanding either men or constitutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then if the constitutions of States are five, the dispositions of individual minds will also be five? Plato. The Republic.
- We cling to constitutions out of loyalty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Physiology says, and says truly, that some men are born with female constitutions--and I am one of them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The above view of the sterility of hybrids being caused by two constitutions being compounded into one has been strongly maintained by Max Wichura. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Certainly, delicate ladies have very extraordinary constitutions, Mrs. Elton. Jane Austen. Emma.
- His younger brothers and sisters are also all promising, appearing to have good tempers and dispositions, as well as good constitutions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The students of the Lyceum under his direction made an analysis of 158 political constitutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The two next stages in the decline of constitutions have even less historical foundation. Plato. The Republic.
- Constitutions do not make people; people make constitutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Anger and hatred are passions inherent in Our very frame and constitutions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- By the sheer force of circumstances we have twisted constitutions and laws to some approximation of our needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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