Distinctions

Examples

• I couldn't make distinctions there and then. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It would not do, of course, to say that all these distinctions persisted in full technical definiteness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But these distinctions and definitions are faulty in very considerable articles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Education is the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I doubt you must have been a solitary prisoner to understand these perplexed distinctions. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What distinctions people draw! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And Betteredge, oblivious of all respect for social distinctions, was peeping over Mr. Bruff's shoulder. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We don't recognise such distinctions here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Lacking qualitative distinctions, nature lacked significant variety. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Germany, the most methodical of European countries, had in the Middle Ages a very clear conception of the fixity of such distinctions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They were mostly drawn from that which, when such distinctions existed, was denominated the lower rank of society. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He may not even be increasing his ability to make accurate distinctions among geometrical forms, to say nothing of ability to observe in general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She drew no distinctions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And what right have you, sir, to make such distinctions? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He remembered what a cosmopolitan gentleman Monsieur Lagnier was, and how few weak distinctions he made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was for just such distinctions that the young man cherished his old New York even while he smiled at it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I have the best hopes of you both, with your proud distinctions--a pair of half-fledged eaglets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Moral distinctions, therefore, are not the offspring of reason. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The science of arithmetic first suggests such distinctions. Plato. The Republic.
• She made few distinctions; she allowed scarcely any one to be good; she dissected impartially almost all her acquaintance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It includes making distinctions, definitions, divisions, and classifications for the mere sake of making them--with no objective in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They alone produce that particular feeling or sentiment, on which moral distinctions depend. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This limitation has given occasion to several distinctions, which, considered as rules of police, appear as foolish as can well be imagined. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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