Derives

Examples

• I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the first act he notices, and he clearly derives pleasure from it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This explanation derives a certain plausibility from the circumstance that 8000 is the ancient number of the Spartan citizens (Herod. Plato. The Republic.
• Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, must draw it either from his labour, from his stock, or from his land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Under the present system of management, therefore, Great Britain derives nothing but loss from the dominion which she assumes over her colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The power of Spain and Portugal, on the contrary, derives some support from the taxes levied upon their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The revenue which the great body of the people derives from land is, in proportion, not to the rent, but to the produce of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And it can make no difference in this respect, whether he derives his information from books, or from conversation with men skilled in the science. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A journeyman who works by the piece is likely to be industrious, because he derives a benefit from every exertion of his industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit, which a nation derives from its foreign trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The state, however, derives no inconsiderable advantage from their instruction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And what is the name which the city derives from the possession of this sort of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
• The city of Amsterdam derives a considerable revenue from the bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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